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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. How many students attend PS261 daily?
(a) 1,300.
(b) 1,500.
(c) 1,200.
(d) 1,400.

2. What did the press report soon after Kozol's visit to the Anacostia elementary school?
(a) A muder at the school.
(b) Statistics about the D.C. dropout rate.
(c) A lawsuit against the public schools in D.C.
(d) A prostitution round-up.

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

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 amount of money needed to educate children in the school system.
(b) The changes that were needed to make the school system equivalent to those in the D.C. suburbs.
(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. What term does the principal at Camden High School give to the dividing up of the children based on their previous test results?
(a) Selective grouping.
(b) Random selection.
(c) Heterogeneous grouping.
(d) Homogeneous grouping.

Short Answer Questions

1. What state is Camden located in?

2. According to Kozol, students in what racial group are more often categorized as retarded?

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 was the former purpose of the building that houses PS261?

5. According to Delabian Rice Thurston, where do the rich in Washington, D.C. try to send their children?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

4. Why do public schools in certain areas of New York suffer more than others?

5. How does Kozol describe the Anacostia neighborhood where Harper and her mother live?

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

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

8. 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?

9. 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?

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

(see the answer keys)

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