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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. 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.

2. 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 Phillips Exeter.
(c) She'll have to decide for herself.
(d) She'll go to St. Paul's.

3. How many kids does Lorene have?
(a) One son.
(b) Two daughters.
(c) One daughter.
(d) One son and two daughters.

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

5. What does Lorene say St. Paul's effect on her was?
(a) It let her become comfortable in her black skin.
(b) It let her escape her race while she was getting an education.
(c) It kept her in her black skin.
(d) It prepared her for being an adult, married woman.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is Pam Hudson?

2. What does Lorene say about her parents with regard to her going to school?

3. What theme is introduced into the book in Chapter 1?

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

5. From where is Jimmy Hill?

Short Essay Questions

1. What are Lorene's feelings about leaving her friends for St. Paul's?

2. What are Lorene's classmates doing, now?

3. Describe Lorene's interview at St. Paul's.

4. Why does Lorene say she is writing her story?

5. Who are the wombats and what is their role in the novel?

6. What does Lorene's mother tell her before she goes off to St. Paul's?

7. What does Jimmy Hill mean when he says he wants to turn out St. Paul's?

8. What does Lorene say when someone asks her whether her daughter will go to St. Paul's?

9. What does Lorene say she will miss about her high school?

10. What is Lorene doing now?

(see the answer keys)

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