1. 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 teach her students to use it for their own good.
(c) That she will save her students from having to learn how to drive on it by experience.
(d) That she will keep her kids from skating on it.

2. When did Lorene start to write about her experiences at St. Paul's?
(a) When she saw those experiences as similar to white experiences in America.
(b) When she saw her experiences as similar to other workers' experiences in America.
(c) When she saw those experiences as different from black life in America.
(d) When she saw that her experience had things in common with Native Americans.

3. What does Lorene's mother say was unfair about the science fair in which Lorene was entered?
(a) Teachers asked Lorene to participate in order to humiliate her.
(b) Teachers made exceptions for white students but not for Lorene.
(c) Teachers judged Lorene's work by a different standard.
(d) Lorene's teachers made so many allowances for her that the competition wasn't fair.

4. Who is Mrs. Evans' husband?
(a) Lorene's boss.
(b) A student at St. Paul's.
(c) The first black man on the staff of the Philadelphia Bulletin.
(d) A teacher at St. Paul's.

5. Where does Chapter 1 take place?
(a) Lorene's grandparents' house.
(b) Lorene's parents' house.
(c) Lorene's high school.
(d) St. Paul's.