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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the scene where Black Ice begins?
(a) Graduation.
(b) The day before Christmas break.
(c) The first day of school.
(d) Summer vacation on Martha's Vineyard.

2. Where is Lorene from?
(a) New York.
(b) Philadelphia.
(c) Washington D.C.
(d) Trenton.

3. When is Chapter 1 set?
(a) 1985.
(b) 1989.
(c) 1968.
(d) 1971.

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

5. What does Lorene say about what her daughter's experience of school is likely to be?
(a) It would be different from hers.
(b) It would be the same experience all black students had in white schools.
(c) It would be very similar to hers.
(d) It would be a new experience in human history.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where does Chapter 1 take place?

2. What do Lorene and her parents see at the meet and greet?

3. When does Black Ice begin?

4. What is Lorene impressed by at the location of the meet and greet?

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

(see the answer key)

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