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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. Why did the city of Chicago construct the high-speed Dan Ryan Expressway to go around certain parts of the city?
(a) To avoid sections of the city that were not highly populated.
(b) To cut off the section of the city that houses the housing projects for black people.
(c) To only service those living in the suburbs, but working in downtown Chicago.
(d) To cut off the industrial sections of the city.

2. 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 sewage treatment plant and a chemical plant.
(d) A chemical plant and incinerator.

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

4. What types of courses does the principal at Woodrow Wilson High School say he is unable to provide his students?
(a) AP courses.
(b) Online courses.
(c) Remedial courses.
(d) Honors courses.

5. Who does the press hail as the answer to solving local school problems?
(a) School administrators.
(b) Non-white leaders.
(c) White leaders.
(d) Government officials.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What was the former purpose of the building that houses PS261?

3. According to Kozol, how many people are supposed to be in PS261 at one time?

4. What type of equipment do the students at Pyne Point Junior High use in their typing class?

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

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. 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?

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

5. 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?

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

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

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

9. Hoe does Kozol describe Camden, New Jersey?

10. Name three specific examples of overcrowding in New Jersey public schools.

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