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

2. What does the principal at PS79 say he will have to do if more students enroll at his school?
(a) He will have to hold some classes in temporary trailers.
(b) He will have to bus them to another school.
(c) He will have to find another building.
(d) He will have to expand his classes.

3. According to Kozol, what does the city of New York supply each ghetto school with?
(a) Guns.
(b) Handcuffs.
(c) Pepper spray.
(d) Police escorts.

4. What business entities exist in Camden but do not pay taxes?
(a) An incinerator and sewage treatment plant.
(b) A sewage treatment plant and a chemical plant.
(c) A pharmacutical plant and a sewage treatment plant.
(d) A chemical plant and incinerator.

5. What does John Coons of the University of California, Berkeley say all children technically are?
(a) Poor.
(b) Obedient.
(c) Rich.
(d) Educated.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the principal of Tunisia's school say she sees children doing in order to have something to eat at home?

2. What does Kozol say the high math and reading test scores in America are based on?

3. After speaking to the kindergarten class at PS79, Kozol learns that one of the African-American boys in the class travels how long each day to get to school?

4. What do the students at Camden High School do during their lunch hour?

5. What type of industry was Camden famous for at one point?

Short Essay Questions

1. What resources do the teachers at Pyne Point Junior High lack? How do the teachers improvise?

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

3. Describe PS 261.

4. What problems do highly selective schools create in New York? Why do they create these problems?

5. How does Kozol describe the Anacostia neighborhood where Harper and her mother live?

6. Hoe does Kozol describe Camden, New Jersey?

7. How do the children attending public schools in the suburbs of New York that Kozol interviews feel about sharing funding and resources with children at urban public schools?

8. What three Supreme Court justices wrote dissents for the Milliken v. Bradley case? Why did each dissent?

9. Where does Delabian Rice-Thurston say the rich and middle class in Washington, D.C. try to send their children to school? Why don't the poor parents send their children to the same schools?

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

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