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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. About what can Lorene talk to India?
(a) Politics.
(b) Her anxieties.
(c) How crazy white people can be.
(d) Her grandmother.

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

3. Where do the other black people work?
(a) Behind the counter.
(b) In the cabins.
(c) In the kitchen.
(d) On the sales floor.

4. To what student council position does Lorene get elected?
(a) Treasurer.
(b) Vice-president.
(c) Secretary.
(d) President.

5. What does Lorene say about her education at St. Paul's?
(a) That she does not think it is a good start.
(b) That it is changing her feeling about her race.
(c) That it is a waste of time.
(d) That it is indoctrinating her in an old ideology.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is Lorene's goal for the summer?

2. Of what is Lorene terrified by the end of Chapter 6?

3. Who is Ms. Clinton?

4. What are white students anxious to disown, according to Lorene?

5. How does Lorene describe Ms. Clinton?

Short Essay Questions

1. What happens to Lorene's mother's health at the end of Chapter 10?

2. Describe Lorene's friendship with Janie Saunders.

3. What does black ice symbolize?

4. Describe Lorene's rendezvous with Ricky Lockhart at his school.

5. How has Lorene changed between her first year and her final year?

6. What is Lorene's experience of drugs like?

7. How does sitting on the Disciplinary Committee change Lorene?

8. Describe Lorene's relationship with Anthony Wade.

9. What happens with the cook who everyone fears?

10. Describe Lorene's date with Booker.

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