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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. According to Kozol, what statistic does New York find hard to track?
(a) The number of students enrolled in urban public schools.
(b) The actual dropout rate.
(c) The races and ethnicities of the students in the public school system.
(d) The actual number of teachers in the system.

2. Which city does Kozol point out as having a non-white administration for two years where conditions did not improve?
(a) Detroit.
(b) Chicago.
(c) Baltimore.
(d) Camden.

3. What racial group makes up 92 percent of the children that attend the public schools in Washington, D.C.?
(a) Hispanic.
(b) White.
(c) Black.
(d) Asian.

4. What type of facility is missing from Camden High School?
(a) Teacher's lounge.
(b) Gym.
(c) Locker room.
(d) A lunch facility.

5. According to Thurston, why are poor people in Washington, D.C. willing to accept a dual system of public education?
(a) They are ignorant to the fleeing of the middle class from the city.
(b) Poor parents want to expand the educational opportunities of their children.
(c) They want to keep the white and black middle class from fleeing the city.
(d) The poor do not realize there is a dual system of education.

Short Answer Questions

1. According to the Wall Street Journal, what are the two worlds of Washington, D.C.?

2. What business entities exist in Camden but do not pay taxes?

3. Who are the manual arts classes in the Riverdale school reserved for?

4. What does the principal at PS79 say he will have to do if more students enroll at his school?

5. Which citiy sits across the Delaware River from Camden?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does Kozol describe the two worlds of Washington, D.C.?

2. How are test scores in math and reading determined? How do the determination of these scores affect children in poor schools?

3. What does Tunisia, a student at Anacostia Elementary School, say that she would do if she had money? Why?

4. How does the court ultimately rule in the class-action suit filed in 1981 by parents of school children in East Orange, Camden, Irvington, and Jersey City? What is the reaction of wealthier tax payers?

5. Describe the Milliken v. Bradley case's appeal to Supreme Court.

6. How does Kozol describe the D.C. school system?

7. Describe PS 79.

8. Why does Kozol think that inner city problems would not be totally solved by better schools?

9. Why would the students at Woodrow Wilson High want to remain there rather than attending a school with better resources?

10. How does Kozol describe the situation at Asbury Park and Irvington?

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