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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How does Lorene describe the black kids she meets at St. Paul's?
(a) Militant.
(b) White-looking.
(c) Africanized.
(d) Subdued.

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

3. What is St. Paul's looking for, in 1971?
(a) Southern students.
(b) Hispanic female students.
(c) Black female students.
(d) Black male students for sports teams.

4. What is Lorene impressed by at the location of the meet and greet?
(a) New York's filth.
(b) Yeadon's dinginess.
(c) Germantown's cobblestone streets.
(d) Philadelphia's racial tension.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Lorene remember when Jimmy Hill talks about turning out St. Paul's?

2. Where does Lorene go to school?

3. What does Lorene's mother tacitly offer to her?

4. What does Lorene say going to St. Paul's would make Nana Hamilton feel?

5. What is Lorene's little sister's feeling about Lorene staying at St. Paul's for school?

(see the answer key)

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