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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Lorene's mother tacitly offer to her?
(a) Advice about getting on the boys' good side.
(b) Resources for an abortion if necessary.
(c) Money for a return ticket if she is miserable at St. Paul's.
(d) Suggestions on marrying rich white boys.

2. What arrangement did Lorene make for Ricky Lockhart's visit?
(a) She found him an empty bed.
(b) She snuck him into her room.
(c) She made him sleep outside.
(d) She found a room in the boy's dorm where he could stay with a friend of hers.

3. What was Lorene's worst subject?
(a) Calculus.
(b) Science.
(c) History.
(d) English.

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

5. About what does Lorene say it is hardest to write?
(a) Race.
(b) Teaching.
(c) Family.
(d) School.

Short Answer Questions

1. What stereotypes does Lorene hear about black people?

2. What is just ending for Lorene at the beginning of the novel?

3. Who is Annette?

4. What is the scene where Black Ice begins?

5. Who is Annette Frazier?

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