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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Where is Lorene from?
(a) Trenton.
(b) Washington D.C.
(c) New York.
(d) Philadelphia.

3. What part of the interview surprised Lorene?
(a) The high intellectual standards of the questions.
(b) The speed with which she was accepted.
(c) The nature of the questions.
(d) Her parents attend as well.

4. What does Lorene feel about her religion class?
(a) She is enthralled by it.
(b) She resents it.
(c) She is bored by it.
(d) She loves it.

5. Who has Lorene married since graduation?
(a) Ricky Lockhart.
(b) A white man.
(c) Jimmy.
(d) She has not married.

6. What theme is introduced into the book in Chapter 1?
(a) The need to run as far from home as possible.
(b) The need to let go of home.
(c) The need to keep close to home.
(d) The need to take home with you wherever you go.

7. What does Lorene do at the beginning of Chapter 4?
(a) Meet her roommates.
(b) Visit with the Rector.
(c) Cry in her room.
(d) Go to dinner with the other students.

8. Who is Lorene?
(a) The main character's mother.
(b) The main character of Black Ice.
(c) The main character's daughter.
(d) The main character's friend.

9. What is Lorene's little sister's feeling about Lorene staying at St. Paul's for school?
(a) She is beaming with pride.
(b) She is a mixture of all kinds of emotions.
(c) She is glad to be free of her older sister.
(d) She is hysterical.

10. Where has Alma ended up, after graduation?
(a) New York.
(b) Washington D.C.
(c) Watts.
(d) St. Paul's.

11. What does Lorene say her feelings about calling St. Paul's were?
(a) Nervousness.
(b) Shame.
(c) Humility.
(d) Pride.

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

13. What has changed about Lorene's mother at Parents Day?
(a) Her hair style.
(b) Her clothing.
(c) Her speech.
(d) Her brand of cigarette.

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

15. What does Lorene say about where her daughter will go to school?
(a) She'll go to Phillips Exeter.
(b) She'll go to St. Paul's.
(c) She won't go to St. Paul's.
(d) She'll have to decide for herself.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Lorene's mother tacitly offer to her?

2. What change was made at St. Paul's in 1971?

3. What does Lorene say about black ice at the end of the novel?

4. What does Lorene's mother say was unfair about the science fair in which Lorene was entered?

5. What does Lorene remember when Jimmy Hill talks about turning out St. Paul's?

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