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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How has Lorene maintained her ties to St. Paul's?
(a) She taught writing there.
(b) She worked there as an admissions officer.
(c) She worked there in the cafeteria.
(d) She worked as an alumni liaison.

2. What do Lorene and her parents see at the meet and greet?
(a) Images of St. Paul's teachers and students.
(b) Images of the library and academic buildings at St. Paul's.
(c) Alumni and faculty from St. Paul's.
(d) Slides of the campus of St. Paul's.

3. Where does Lorene work?
(a) A gas station.
(b) A fast food restaurant.
(c) A fish market.
(d) A grocery store.

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

5. What does Lorene's mother ask at the meet and greet?
(a) Whether competition will be fair.
(b) Who will advocate for her daughter.
(c) Who will teach her daughter to withstand white culture.
(d) Who will protect her daughter from the white students' insults.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is Lorene impressed by at the location of the meet and greet?

2. What does Lorene say her feelings about calling St. Paul's were?

3. Where does Lorene go to school?

4. What is the outcome of Lorene's call to St. Paul's?

5. Of what does the opening scene remind Lorene?

(see the answer key)

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