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

2. Who is Annette Frazier?

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

4. Of what does the opening scene remind Lorene?

5. What does Lorene feel about her religion class?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

5. What are Lorene's thoughts about St. Paul's after she has the visit?

6. Who is Mr. Evans, and what is his relationship with Lorene?

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

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

9. What has Lorene's relationship with St. Paul's been?

10. Who are the first people Lorene describes meeting?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Lorene says that she does not feel included in white people's religion, but she still resists sex and drugs, with a certain morality of her own. What is Lorene's religion, and how does she protect her faith in it throughout her experiences?

Essay Topic 2

One of the only times we see Lorene afraid is when she fears she is pregnant. What would being pregnant mean for her, or for her mother?

Essay Topic 3

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?

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