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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Lorene say about her parents with regard to her going to school?
(a) They were afraid for her to go south.
(b) They didn't have any idea what they were getting into.
(c) They knew what kinds of sacrifices they were making for her education.
(d) They were afraid for her to go north.

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

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

4. 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 it doesn't matter what color people are.
(c) When people say that she can't do things because she is black.
(d) When people say that she can't do things because she is a girl.

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

6. How has Lorene maintained her ties to St. Paul's?
(a) She worked there as an admissions officer.
(b) She worked as an alumni liaison.
(c) She taught writing there.
(d) She worked there in the cafeteria.

7. What does Lorene remember when Jimmy Hill talks about turning out St. Paul's?
(a) Her mother being discriminated against at a department store.
(b) Her grandmother telling her to stay out of trouble.
(c) Her teacher warning her against militarism.
(d) The pride she felt when her father held back a white mob.

8. What is it about the Puerto Rican boy that makes Lorene's mother furious?
(a) His smell.
(b) His attitude.
(c) His snobbery.
(d) His language.

9. What does Lorene feel about the other students by November?
(a) Inspired.
(b) Bored.
(c) Afraid.
(d) Awed.

10. In what way is Jimmy Hill notable to Lorene?
(a) He is very tall.
(b) He is very fat.
(c) He is very militant.
(d) He is very thin.

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

12. 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 has an application sent to her house.
(d) She sets up a meeting.

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

14. Who is Mrs. Evans?
(a) Lorene's teacher.
(b) Lorene's neighbor.
(c) Lorene's aunt.
(d) Lorene's boss.

15. What change was made at St. Paul's in 1971?
(a) It started an Affirmative Action program.
(b) It started to accept blacks.
(c) It started to transition to being an all-black school.
(d) It went gone co-ed.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is Lorene's little sister's feeling about Lorene staying at St. Paul's for school?

2. About what does Lorene say it is hardest to write?

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

4. Who is Mr. Dick?

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

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