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

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

4. When did Lorene start to write about her experiences at St. Paul's?
(a) When she saw her experiences as similar to other workers' experiences in America.
(b) When she saw those experiences as different from black life in America.
(c) When she saw that her experience had things in common with Native Americans.
(d) When she saw those experiences as similar to white experiences in America.

5. What is Lorene impressed by at the location of the meet and greet?
(a) Philadelphia's racial tension.
(b) Germantown's cobblestone streets.
(c) Yeadon's dinginess.
(d) New York's filth.

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

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

8. Where do Lorene and her parents visit first when they arrive at St. Paul's?
(a) The library.
(b) The Rectory.
(c) The dormitory.
(d) The field house.

9. What does the person Lorene and her parents see give Lorene?
(a) Encouragement and a description of the administration.
(b) A warning about coming here as a black student.
(c) A map of the school.
(d) A graduation gift of $5.

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

11. What are Lorene's grades at the first mid-terms?
(a) Exceptionally good.
(b) Poor.
(c) Mediocre.
(d) Very good.

12. Who is Mr. Dick?
(a) A housekeeper.
(b) A policeman.
(c) A teacher at St. Paul's.
(d) The admissions officer.

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

14. Who is Annette Frazier?
(a) Another black student.
(b) A teacher.
(c) A residence hall advisor.
(d) The Rector.

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