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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is North Upper?
(a) The athletic facility at St. Paul's.
(b) Lorene's dorm.
(c) The library at St. Paul's.
(d) Lorene's academic home.

2. How does Lorene describe Ms. Clinton?
(a) Pensive and poetic.
(b) Intense and brutally intelligent.
(c) Energetic and fun.
(d) Supportive and maternal.

3. What arrangement did Lorene make for Ricky Lockhart's visit?
(a) She found him an empty bed.
(b) She found a room in the boy's dorm where he could stay with a friend of hers.
(c) She snuck him into her room.
(d) She made him sleep outside.

4. What view from the white students frustrates Lorene?
(a) That slavery is history.
(b) That slavery was a legitimate institution.
(c) That black people still have to prove themselves worthy of freedom.
(d) That white people should not be held accountable for slavery.

5. What change is marked by Lorene hitting her sister?
(a) She has stopped being family, and begun to be a stranger to her sister.
(b) She is no longer a child and playmate.
(c) She has internalized the violence of her white surroundings.
(d) She has treated her sister the way the cook at the diner treated her.

6. What is Lorene's view about how blacks should address inequality in American culture?
(a) She believes they should focus on economic stability and prosperity.
(b) She believes they should invest in education.
(c) She believes they should negotiate non-violently.
(d) She believes they should fight.

7. What are white students anxious to disown, according to Lorene?
(a) The progress they took for granted.
(b) The wealth they inherited.
(c) The sins of their grandparents.
(d) The expectation of conventional success.

8. What was Lorene's worst subject?
(a) Science.
(b) English.
(c) Calculus.
(d) History.

9. What does Lorene think about when she is on the ice?
(a) Things her father told her about white people.
(b) Promises Jimmy Hill made to her.
(c) Things she learned from Ricky Lockhart.
(d) Things her mother told her about sex.

10. What does Ricky Lockhart ask Lorene over the summer?
(a) To help him connect with another girl.
(b) To visit him.
(c) To sleep with him.
(d) To marry him.

11. Where does Lorene apply to college?
(a) Berkeley.
(b) Harvard.
(c) Columbia.
(d) Penn.

12. Who is Ricky Lockhart?
(a) Lorene's admirer.
(b) Lorene's study partner.
(c) Lorene's pen pal.
(d) Lorene's boyfriend.

13. What is the significance of black ice for Lorene?
(a) She slides on it treacherously.
(b) She contrasts it to white ice.
(c) She falls on it and injures herself.
(d) She goes there to relax.

14. What does Lorene decide while she is on the black ice?
(a) Never to trust men.
(b) Not to accept less than the best she can do.
(c) To write, not to study.
(d) To make a lot of money.

15. What does Lorene's teacher tell her about her worst subject?
(a) She cannot graduate without passing.
(b) Her record will be blighted if she fails.
(c) She will reinforce every stereotype about women and blacks if she fails.
(d) It's alright if she fails it.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is Archibald Cox talking about when he says "our kind of people"?

2. Who is Vernon Jordan?

3. Where does Lorene work for the summer?

4. Who is Anthony Wade?

5. How many High Honors does Lorene have in her first report card?

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