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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What are Lorene's grades at the first mid-terms?
(a) Exceptionally good.
(b) Poor.
(c) Mediocre.
(d) Very good.

2. How does Lorene interpret her dreams?
(a) As a warning to remember who she is.
(b) As a warning to stay inside her shell.
(c) As a warning to open her mouth only when she can speak facts.
(d) As a warning not to befriend white girls.

3. Of what does the opening scene remind Lorene?
(a) Her own time as a student.
(b) Her parents' house in South Carolina.
(c) Her daughter.
(d) Her grandmother.

4. How long has Lorene been teaching, at the beginning of the book?
(a) 15 years.
(b) 1 year.
(c) 6 years.
(d) 9 years.

5. 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.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Where is Lorene from?

3. When is Chapter 1 set?

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

5. What does Lorene say, years later, has happened to the person she and her parents saw their first day at St. Paul's?

(see the answer key)

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