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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. About what does Lorene say she wants to start a discussion?
(a) The history of slavery in the North.
(b) America's ideas about workers' rights.
(c) Growing up black in America.
(d) Modern ideas about women's rights.

2. Who is Mrs. Evans' husband?
(a) A teacher at St. Paul's.
(b) The first black man on the staff of the Philadelphia Bulletin.
(c) Lorene's boss.
(d) A student at St. Paul's.

3. 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.

4. From where is Jimmy Hill?
(a) Brooklyn.
(b) Maine.
(c) Philadelphia.
(d) Alabama.

5. What is St. Paul's looking for, in 1971?
(a) Black male students for sports teams.
(b) Black female students.
(c) Hispanic female students.
(d) Southern students.

6. What are Lorene's feelings about her classmates?
(a) She feels persecuted.
(b) She feels left out.
(c) She feels like the pride of her school.
(d) She feels like a mascot.

7. About what does Lorene say it is easiest to write?
(a) Race.
(b) Literature.
(c) Politics.
(d) St. Paul's.

8. Who is Mr. Price?
(a) A black professional.
(b) The president of St. Paul's.
(c) The admissions officer for St. Paul's.
(d) A black teacher.

9. What stereotypes does Lorene hear about black people?
(a) That they do not take care of their people.
(b) That they are brilliant in the arts but slow academically.
(c) That they cannot be taught.
(d) That they are lazy and slovenly.

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

11. What does Lorene say the black kids at St. Paul's think?
(a) That they really own the school.
(b) That they have been invited into a curriculum that transcends black and white.
(c) That they will always be servants and slaves.
(d) That it is the white kids' school.

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

13. What is the outcome of Lorene's call to St. Paul's?
(a) She sets up a meeting.
(b) She arranges a campus visit.
(c) She agrees to meet an alumnus to talk about St. Paul's.
(d) She has an application sent to her house.

14. What does the school suggest Lorene do?
(a) Open a checking account.
(b) Get to know other black students.
(c) Come to New Hampshire early to familiarize herself with the area.
(d) Invest in nice clothes.

15. 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 very similar to hers.
(c) It would be the same experience all black students had in white schools.
(d) It would be different from hers.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Where does Lorene work?

3. How often do the students have assigned tables for meals?

4. When did Lorene start to write about her experiences at St. Paul's?

5. Who is Jimmy Hill?

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