2. What does Lorene say life at St. Paul's resembles for black students?
(a) Life in modern times.
(b) Life in America.
(c) Life in the North.
(d) Life as a worker in a capitalist economy.

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

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

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

6. What question bothers Lorene on her religion exam?
(a) What Jesus' role in her life is.
(b) Who Jesus is.
(c) Whether Jesus was the son of God.
(d) What Jesus wants from her.

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

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

9. What is just ending for Lorene at the beginning of the novel?
(a) Her time in school.
(b) Her teaching career.
(c) Her term as a trustee.
(d) Her daughter's time in school.

10. What does Lorene feel about the other white students?
(a) She loathes them and misses her family.
(b) She feels like she becomes one of them.
(c) She understands their prejudices.
(d) She finds it hard to relate to them.

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

12. When does Lorene get mad?
(a) When people say that she will be white by the time she is done at St. Paul's.
(b) When people say that she can't do things because she is black.
(c) When people say that she can't do things because she is a girl.
(d) When people say that it doesn't matter what color people are.

13. Who is Pam Hudson?
(a) A teacher.
(b) One of the first girls to be admitted to St. Paul's.
(c) Lorene's roommate.
(d) Another black student.

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

15. When is the conclusion set?
(a) At a hotel in New York.
(b) At Lorene's wedding.
(c) At Lorene's daughter's graduation.
(d) At Lorene's 15th reunion.