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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. Who is Grace?
(a) Lorene's roommate.
(b) Lorene's study partner.
(c) Lorene's pen pal.
(d) Lorene's teacher.

2. What view from the white students frustrates Lorene?
(a) That white people should not be held accountable for slavery.
(b) That black people still have to prove themselves worthy of freedom.
(c) That slavery was a legitimate institution.
(d) That slavery is history.

3. Where does Lorene go for spring break at the beginning of Chapter 8?
(a) To Europe.
(b) To New York.
(c) Home.
(d) Skiing.

4. About what can Lorene talk to India?
(a) Her anxieties.
(b) Politics.
(c) How crazy white people can be.
(d) Her grandmother.

5. What is Lorene's problem with Archibald Cox's conversation over dinner?
(a) He has contempt for Northerners.
(b) He is dismissive of racial equality.
(c) He does not address black concerns at all.
(d) He is condescending toward women's issues.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is Lorene's response to what happens during Ricky Lockhart's visit?

2. What does Lorene think about when she is on the ice?

3. What arrangement did Lorene make for Ricky Lockhart's visit?

4. Who is Archibald Cox?

5. What sport does Lorene join in the spring?

Short Essay Questions

1. What is Lorene's relationship with Alma?

2. Who is Ricky Lockhart, and how does Lorene describe him?

3. Describe Lorene's workplace for the summer after her first year.

4. What areLorene's grades like on her first report card?

5. How does sitting on the Disciplinary Committee change Lorene?

6. Describe Lorene's friendship with Janie Saunders.

7. What is Lorene's experience on the black ice?

8. Describe Lorene's friendship with India.

9. Describe Lorene's visit to Ricky Lockhart in New York.

10. What is Lorene's experience of drugs like?

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