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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Who are the wombats?
(a) The Hispanic students.
(b) The school mascots.
(c) Mentally retarded white kids.
(d) The black students.

3. What do Lorene and her parents see at the meet and greet?
(a) Images of the library and academic buildings at St. Paul's.
(b) Slides of the campus of St. Paul's.
(c) Images of St. Paul's teachers and students.
(d) Alumni and faculty from St. Paul's.

4. What does Lorene's mother ask at the meet and greet?
(a) Who will advocate for her daughter.
(b) Who will teach her daughter to withstand white culture.
(c) Whether competition will be fair.
(d) Who will protect her daughter from the white students' insults.

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

6. What lie does Lorene tell Mr. Dick?
(a) That her high school has many high-performing students.
(b) That she hates school.
(c) That she likes school most of the time.
(d) That she had never heard of St. Paul's until a month ago.

7. What does Lorene say St. Paul's effect on her was?
(a) It prepared her for being an adult, married woman.
(b) It let her escape her race while she was getting an education.
(c) It let her become comfortable in her black skin.
(d) It kept her in her black skin.

8. What does Jimmy Hill mean when he says that he and Lorene will 'turn out' St. Paul's?
(a) They will find the classiest places to hang out.
(b) They will stand up to the whites.
(c) They will get in as much trouble as possible without being thrown out.
(d) They will show what it means to have soul.

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

10. Where does Lorene go to school?
(a) Cornell.
(b) St. Paul's.
(c) Yale.
(d) Philips Exeter.

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

12. What has Mr. Evans given to Lorene?
(a) A book.
(b) A journal.
(c) A typewriter.
(d) An expensive fountain pen.

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

14. How long has it been, at the beginning of the book, since Lorene graduated from high school?
(a) 1 year.
(b) 15 years.
(c) 9 years.
(d) 6 years.

15. What does Lorene feel she has done, by getting into St. Paul's?
(a) Betrayed her friends.
(b) Entered white society as an equal.
(c) Escaped from the South.
(d) Made her family happy.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Who is Lee Bouton?

3. When does Lorene get mad?

4. Who do Lorene and her family see when they wake up at Scudder House?

5. Who is Mrs. Evans' husband?

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