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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 type of people does Octovia, a child at the Anacostia elementary school, say that the girls want to be like when they grow up?
(a) Rock stars.
(b) Lawyers.
(c) Secretaries.
(d) Teachers.

2. How many districts are New York schools divided into?
(a) 34.
(b) 30.
(c) 36.
(d) 32.

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

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

5. How does the school administrator at Morris High School in the South Bronx encourage the supposedly slow children to express themselves?
(a) By writing short stories.
(b) In theater.
(c) Through interpretive dance.
(d) By writing poetry.

Short Answer Questions

1. What issue do PS261 and PS79 share?

2. What is the fate of Raymond Abbot long after the court's decision is rendered?

3. What type of early child care program can the principal at PS79 not start at his school?

4. Where do most of the motivated children at Morris High School plan to go after they graduate?

5. Why did the city of Chicago construct the high-speed Dan Ryan Expressway to go around certain parts of the city?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. How do the suburban schools in New York compare to the urban schools in New York?

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

5. 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?

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

7. Who is Joe Clark? What role did he play in the New Jersey public school system?

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

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

10. 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?

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