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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. What does Lorene say about where her daughter will go to school?
(a) She won't go to St. Paul's.
(b) She'll go to Phillips Exeter.
(c) She'll go to St. Paul's.
(d) She'll have to decide for herself.

4. 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 will save her students from having to learn how to drive on it by experience.
(d) That she has never skated on it.

5. 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 let her become comfortable in her black skin.
(d) It kept her in her black skin.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What does Lorene's mother ask at the meet and greet?

3. When is the conclusion set?

4. How is Lorene portrayed in the summary of the novel?

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

(see the answer key)

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