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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter Nine.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why was Booker embarrassed on his date with Lorene?
(a) He drank too much and threw up.
(b) He couldn't think of things to talk about.
(c) He didn't have enough money.
(d) He spilled drinks on himself.

2. Who is Booker?
(a) A cook.
(b) The owner.
(c) A cashier.
(d) Another counselor.

3. What does Lorene do after getting into St. Paul's?
(a) Begins to affect a New England accent.
(b) Throws herself into school life.
(c) Go out with white boys.
(d) Take on volunteer projects.

4. What change is marked by Lorene hitting her sister?
(a) She is no longer a child and playmate.
(b) She has internalized the violence of her white surroundings.
(c) She has stopped being family, and begun to be a stranger to her sister.
(d) She has treated her sister the way the cook at the diner treated her.

5. Who is Nana Hamilton?
(a) Lorene's mother.
(b) Lorene's friend.
(c) Lorene's teacher.
(d) Lorene's grandmother.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Lorene feel she has done, by getting into St. Paul's?

2. With what does Lorene return to St. Paul's in Chapter 6?

3. Where do Lorene and her parents visit first when they arrive at St. Paul's?

4. What is Grace's ethnicity?

5. What did Lorene's mother say she had not done until after she was married?

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