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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How is Lorene portrayed in the summary of the novel?
(a) As an exception to the rules.
(b) As a hard worker.
(c) As a child of privilege.
(d) As a trailblazer.

2. Where has Jimmy ended up, after graduation?
(a) New York.
(b) Selma.
(c) Atlanta.
(d) San Francisco.

3. What change was made at St. Paul's in 1971?
(a) It started an Affirmative Action program.
(b) It started to accept blacks.
(c) It went gone co-ed.
(d) It started to transition to being an all-black school.

4. Who has Lorene married since graduation?
(a) Ricky Lockhart.
(b) She has not married.
(c) Jimmy.
(d) A white man.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is Mr. Price?

2. How long has it been, at the beginning of the book, since Lorene graduated from high school?

3. How has Lorene maintained her ties to St. Paul's?

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

5. About what does Lorene say it is hardest to write?

(see the answer key)

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