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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. What view from the white students frustrates Lorene?

2. Who is Grace?

3. Why was Ricky Lockhart's visit a problem?

4. What does Lorene say about her education at St. Paul's?

5. What is the significance of black ice for Lorene?

Short Essay Questions

1. Describe Lorene's experience tutoring black students.

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

3. Describe Lorene's campaign for student council.

4. Describe Lorene's date with Booker.

5. Describe Lorene's rendezvous with Ricky Lockhart at his school.

6. Who are Annette and Grace?

7. Describe Lorene's friendship with Janie Saunders.

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

9. Describe Lorene's friendship with India.

10. What happens to Lorene's mother's health at the end of Chapter 10?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Where is the climax of this book? Are there different climaxes? What questions does each climax resolve? What questions does each climax leave unanswered?

Essay Topic 2

How does Lorene change over the course of the book? What are the two or three biggest influences on Lorene's maturation? Which one was most influential? What influences did she resist?

Essay Topic 3

What does being black mean to Lorene, and how does she keep her blackness throughout the book? Is it ever in danger?

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