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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. 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 modern times.
(c) Life in America.
(d) Life in the North.

2. What do Lorene and her parents see at the meet and greet?
(a) Images of St. Paul's teachers and students.
(b) Slides of the campus of St. Paul's.
(c) Images of the library and academic buildings at St. Paul's.
(d) Alumni and faculty from St. Paul's.

3. What does Lorene say about black ice at the end of the novel?
(a) That she will save her students from having to learn how to drive on it by experience.
(b) That she will teach her students to use it for their own good.
(c) That she has never skated on it.
(d) That she will keep her kids from skating on it.

4. Who is Nana Hamilton?
(a) Lorene's mother.
(b) Lorene's teacher.
(c) Lorene's friend.
(d) Lorene's grandmother.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Where is Lorene from?

2. Where has Jimmy ended up, after graduation?

3. What did Lorene's mother say she had not done until after she was married?

4. What does Lorene feel she has done, by getting into St. Paul's?

5. Where has Alma ended up, after graduation?

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