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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is one way Jonathan Kozol says can show people how valuable we think they are?
(a) By the number of social workers assigned to a school.
(b) By the amount of welfare they receive.
(c) By the textbooks that are in the classrooms at the school.
(d) By the medical care we offer them.

2. According to Kozol, students in what racial group are more often categorized with a speech disorder?
(a) Black.
(b) Asian.
(c) White.
(d) Hispanic.

3. How many students attend Camden High School?
(a) 4,000.
(b) 2,000.
(c) 3,000.
(d) 1,000.

4. What does Thurston say black people did not understand regarding their children and the public education system in Washington, D.C. and those in the surrounding suburbs?
(a) The changes that were needed to make the school system equivalent to those in the D.C. suburbs.
(b) The amount of money needed to educate children in the school system.
(c) The changes that the school system would make if white parents complained about the system.
(d) The length that whites would go to keep their children at a distance from black children.

5. How many students from Woodrow Wilson, according to Kozol, sign up to take the SAT in the spring of 1990 when he visits?
(a) 54.
(b) 77.
(c) 132.
(d) 60.

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

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

8. 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.

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

10. What does the principal of Tunisia's school say she sees children doing in order to have something to eat at home?
(a) Stealing from other students lunches.
(b) Asking for extra food at lunch.
(c) Pocketing chicken nuggets.
(d) Staying after school to receive free dinner.

11. Where is Camden ranked in terms of its number of poor people as compared to other states in the U.S.?
(a) Third.
(b) First.
(c) Fourth.
(d) Second.

12. According to Kozol, what is the estimated worth of the education a child receives in the suburbs of New York?
(a) $12,000.
(b) $14,000.
(c) $13,000.
(d) $11,000.

13. What are test scores in math and reading in America graded against?
(a) An absolute standard.
(b) A norm or average.
(c) A national standard.
(d) A regional standard.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. At an elementary school in Anacostia, Kozol speaks with a young girl named Tunisia. What is not one of the things that Tunisia tell Kozol she would do if she had a lot of money?

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

3. According to the principal, how much does Woodrow Wilson spend yearly on each student?

4. Who is the former principal of East Side High School that was praised by U.S. Education Secretary William Bennett?

5. Which city does Kozol point out as having a non-white administration for two years where conditions did not improve?

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