Black Ice Test | Mid-Book Test - Easy

Lorene Cary
This set of Lesson Plans consists of approximately 112 pages of tests, essay questions, lessons, and other teaching materials.

Black Ice Test | Mid-Book Test - Easy

Lorene Cary
This set of Lesson Plans consists of approximately 112 pages of tests, essay questions, lessons, and other teaching materials.
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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What is the scene where Black Ice begins?
(a) Summer vacation on Martha's Vineyard.
(b) The day before Christmas break.
(c) The first day of school.
(d) Graduation.

3. 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 moved on to a better position.
(b) He has moved back to his family in the Midwest.
(c) She has gotten married and been given a promotion.
(d) She has been widowed and become depressed.

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

5. What position has Lorene occupied at St. Paul's?
(a) Trustee.
(b) Admissions officer.
(c) Loan officer.
(d) Professor.

6. 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.

7. What does Lorene's mother say was unfair about the science fair in which Lorene was entered?
(a) Teachers made exceptions for white students but not for Lorene.
(b) Teachers judged Lorene's work by a different standard.
(c) Lorene's teachers made so many allowances for her that the competition wasn't fair.
(d) Teachers asked Lorene to participate in order to humiliate her.

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

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

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

11. Where has Alma ended up, after graduation?
(a) Watts.
(b) St. Paul's.
(c) New York.
(d) Washington D.C.

12. 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) Alumni and faculty from St. Paul's.
(c) Slides of the campus of St. Paul's.
(d) Images of St. Paul's teachers and students.

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Lorene's housemaster tell her about grades?

2. Where do Lorene and her parents visit first when they arrive at St. Paul's?

3. Who are the wombats?

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

5. What does Lorene say the black kids at St. Paul's think?

(see the answer keys)

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