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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 is the race of the non-white children in the accelerated classes at the school in Riverdale?
(a) African.
(b) Asian.
(c) Black.
(d) Hispanic.

2. Who used to attend the church in Camden that Kozol passes while chatting with two teachers from Camden High School?
(a) Martin Luther King, Jr.
(b) Walt Whitman.
(c) Robert Frost.
(d) Langston Hughes.

3. Why did Kozol stay in Cherry Hill while he was visiting Camden?
(a) Because the school administrators thought Kozol would be safer in the suburbs.
(b) Because Cherry Hill offers more shops and eateries.
(c) Because Kozol prefered to stay in an upper-income neighborhood.
(d) Because Camden did not have any hotels.

4. Who is the former principal of East Side High School that was praised by U.S. Education Secretary William Bennett?
(a) Jim Johnson.
(b) John Brown.
(c) James Richmond.
(d) Joe Clark.

5. Which citiy sits across the Delaware River from Camden?
(a) New York, NY.
(b) Trenton, NJ.
(c) Philadelphia, PA.
(d) Dover, DE.

Short Answer Questions

1. What state is Camden located in?

2. What does Kozol think will not solve inner-city problems?

3. What is one way not mentioned by Kozol's friend Elizabeth that poor people know that they are living in a rich society?

4. What term does Harper describe as "you crawl along the street and look for rocks. You look for rocks that other people spill. You crawl along your knees..."

5. Why does one of the psychiatrists that Kozol speaks to believe many whites think more money will not help inner city schools?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

6. How does the judge respond to the class-action suit filed by the parent's of Raymond Abbot?

7. Describe PS 79.

8. What similarity exist between selective schools in New York and Chicago?

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 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?

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