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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) Hispanic.
(b) African.
(c) Asian.
(d) Black.

2. What issue do PS261 and PS79 share?
(a) Lack of space.
(b) Low enrollment.
(c) Unqualified teachers.
(d) Lack of up-to-date resources.

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

4. According to Harper, how does her teacher punish the children?
(a) By sending them to the principal's office.
(b) With a paddle.
(c) By standing in the corner.
(d) Detention.

5. 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?
(a) Plant a flowerbox.
(b) Paint the dirty walls.
(c) Buy curtains for her teacher.
(d) Buy new textbooks.

Short Answer Questions

1. What are test scores in math and reading in America graded against?

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

3. What is one way Jonathan Kozol says can show people how valuable we think they are?

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. How many of the girls does the principal in Anacostia say will be pregnant by the fifth grade?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. Describe PS 79.

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

5. Describe PS 261.

6. 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?

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

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

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

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

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