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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who do Lorene and her family see when they wake up at Scudder House?

2. What does Lorene say going to St. Paul's would make Nana Hamilton feel?

3. When does Black Ice begin?

4. What does Jimmy Hill mean when he says that he and Lorene will 'turn out' St. Paul's?

5. Where does Lorene work?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Lorene's mother ask at the meet and greet?

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

3. Describe Lorene and her parents' arrival at St. Paul's.

4. In what way does Lorene say that St. Paul's was similar to American culture?

5. When is the last chapter set?

6. What warning did Lorene get in a dream?

7. Why is Lorene's mother furious when Lorene brings a Puerto Rican boy over?

8. How does Lorene say St. Paul's affected her life?

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

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

How does Lorene's experience at St. Paul's change her relationship with her family and her community in Philadelphia? Does she leave them behind, does the relationship remain the same, or does she forge a new relationship with them?

Essay Topic 2

What does being black mean to Lorene, and how does she keep her blackness throughout the book? Is it ever in danger?

Essay Topic 3

Write an evaluative review of Black Ice. What is this book's place in culture? What are its uses? Who is its audience? What are its limitations?

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