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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. About what does Lorene say it is hardest to write?
(a) Family.
(b) School.
(c) Race.
(d) Teaching.

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

3. 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 keep her kids from skating on it.
(c) That she has never skated on it.
(d) That she will save her students from having to learn how to drive on it by experience.

4. 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 started to transition to being an all-black school.
(d) It went gone co-ed.

5. About what does Lorene say she wants to start a discussion?
(a) Modern ideas about women's rights.
(b) The history of slavery in the North.
(c) America's ideas about workers' rights.
(d) Growing up black in America.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who has Lorene married since graduation?

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

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

4. Where has Jimmy ended up, after graduation?

5. Who is Mr. Price?

(see the answer key)

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