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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. What change is marked by Lorene hitting her sister?
(a) She has stopped being family, and begun to be a stranger to her sister.
(b) She has treated her sister the way the cook at the diner treated her.
(c) She has internalized the violence of her white surroundings.
(d) She is no longer a child and playmate.

4. What does Lorene say about what her daughter's experience of school is likely to be?
(a) It would be a new experience in human history.
(b) It would be the same experience all black students had in white schools.
(c) It would be different from hers.
(d) It would be very similar to hers.

5. Where does Lorene work?
(a) A fast food restaurant.
(b) A gas station.
(c) A fish market.
(d) A grocery store.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where does Lorene work for the summer?

2. Who is Archibald Cox talking about when he says "our kind of people"?

3. What does Lorene say people thought about the first black teacher at St. Paul's?

4. Why was Booker embarrassed on his date with Lorene?

5. What does Lorene refuse to do when she visits Ricky Lockhart?

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