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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 feel about the other students by November?

2. Where do Lorene and her parents pass through on their way to St. Paul's?

3. What question bothers Lorene on her religion exam?

4. Of what does the opening scene remind Lorene?

5. Why is Lorene mortified in her religion class?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

5. Who are the first people Lorene describes meeting?

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

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

8. Describe Lorene's relation with white girls.

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

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

How does Lorene change over the course of the book? What are the two or three biggest influences on Lorene's maturation? Which one was most influential? What influences did she resist?

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

Evaluate your own reading of Black Ice--did you resist it, or were you compelled by the story? What does your reading tell you about yourself and your interests? Use specific examples from the book to describe yourself as a reader.

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