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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How often do the students have assigned tables for meals?
(a) Two days a week.
(b) Four days a week.
(c) Five days a week.
(d) Seven days a week.

2. What is just ending for Lorene at the beginning of the novel?
(a) Her teaching career.
(b) Her time in school.
(c) Her daughter's time in school.
(d) Her term as a trustee.

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

4. Who is Mr. Price?
(a) The president of St. Paul's.
(b) A black professional.
(c) The admissions officer for St. Paul's.
(d) A black teacher.

5. What does Lorene say, years later, has happened to the person she and her parents saw their first day at St. Paul's?
(a) He has moved back to his family in the Midwest.
(b) She has gotten married and been given a promotion.
(c) She has moved on to a better position.
(d) She has been widowed and become depressed.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who told Lorene about St. Paul's?

2. What is it about the Puerto Rican boy that makes Lorene's mother furious?

3. Why do the white girls say that they don't say anything around Lorene?

4. How long does the drive take to St. Paul's?

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

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