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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How does Lorene describe her parents?
(a) Humble mixed-race couple in their 40s.
(b) Ambitious black couple in their 30s.
(c) Devout black Quakers in their 30s.
(d) Protective adoptive white couple in their 40s.

2. What does Lorene say life at St. Paul's resembles for black students?
(a) Life as a worker in a capitalist economy.
(b) Life in America.
(c) Life in the North.
(d) Life in modern times.

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) Lorene's teachers made so many allowances for her that the competition wasn't fair.
(c) Teachers made exceptions for white students but not for Lorene.
(d) Teachers judged Lorene's work by a different standard.

4. Where do Lorene and her parents pass through on their way to St. Paul's?
(a) Harlem.
(b) Washington Heights.
(c) New Haven slums.
(d) The South Bronx.

5. What is the outcome of Lorene's call to St. Paul's?
(a) She agrees to meet an alumnus to talk about St. Paul's.
(b) She sets up a meeting.
(c) She has an application sent to her house.
(d) She arranges a campus visit.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who are the wombats?

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

3. What position has Lorene occupied at St. Paul's?

4. Who is Mr. Price?

5. What are Lorene's feelings about her classmates?

(see the answer key)

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