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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 worked as an alumni liaison.
(b) She taught writing there.
(c) She worked there in the cafeteria.
(d) She worked there as an admissions officer.

2. When is Chapter 1 set?
(a) 1968.
(b) 1985.
(c) 1971.
(d) 1989.

3. What are Lorene's feelings about her classmates?
(a) She feels left out.
(b) She feels persecuted.
(c) She feels like a mascot.
(d) She feels like the pride of her school.

4. What does Lorene say St. Paul's effect on her was?
(a) It prepared her for being an adult, married woman.
(b) It let her escape her race while she was getting an education.
(c) It kept her in her black skin.
(d) It let her become comfortable in her black skin.

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 will keep her kids from skating on it.
(d) That she has never skated on it.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is St. Paul's looking for, in 1971?

2. What does Lorene say about where her daughter will go to school?

3. Where has Alma ended up, after graduation?

4. What is just ending for Lorene at the beginning of the novel?

5. Where does Chapter 1 take place?

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