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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What position has Lorene occupied at St. Paul's?
(a) Admissions officer.
(b) Trustee.
(c) Loan officer.
(d) Professor.

2. Of what does the opening scene remind Lorene?
(a) Her parents' house in South Carolina.
(b) Her daughter.
(c) Her grandmother.
(d) Her own time as a student.

3. Who is Mr. Dick?
(a) A housekeeper.
(b) A teacher at St. Paul's.
(c) The admissions officer.
(d) A policeman.

4. What is Lorene impressed by at the location of the meet and greet?
(a) Germantown's cobblestone streets.
(b) New York's filth.
(c) Philadelphia's racial tension.
(d) Yeadon's dinginess.

5. What does Lorene say about black ice at the end of the novel?
(a) That she will teach her students to use it for their own good.
(b) That she will save her students from having to learn how to drive on it by experience.
(c) That she has never skated on it.
(d) That she will keep her kids from skating on it.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who are the wombats?

2. About what does Lorene say it is easiest to write?

3. What is the scene where Black Ice begins?

4. Who has Lorene married since graduation?

5. What does the person Lorene and her parents see give Lorene?

(see the answer key)

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