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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. What does Lorene say going to St. Paul's would make Nana Hamilton feel?
(a) Disappointed.
(b) Betrayed.
(c) Guilty.
(d) Proud.

4. What does Lorene's housemaster tell her about grades?
(a) That she needs to work harder.
(b) That she is about to fail out.
(c) That she needs to improve.
(d) That she is doing fine.

5. 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 keep her kids from skating on it.
(c) That she has never skated on it.
(d) That she will teach her students to use it for their own good.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Lorene describe the black kids she meets at St. Paul's?

2. Where has Alma ended up, after graduation?

3. Where does Lorene work?

4. What does Lorene feel about her religion class?

5. Who is Pam Hudson?

(see the answer key)

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