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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 her religion class?

2. What does Lorene say people thought about the first black teacher at St. Paul's?

3. What does Lorene remember when Jimmy Hill talks about turning out St. Paul's?

4. Who is Lee Bouton?

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

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Lorene feel about her first religion class?

2. Who is Lorene Carey and what brings her to this setting?

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

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

5. Where is Black Ice set?

6. By what was Lorene's mother shocked at the meet and greet?

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

8. Where did Lorene work during high school?

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

10. What does Mrs. Evans tell Lorene about St. Paul's?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

How is racism described in Black Ice and how is it contained? How do Lorene or other characters put racism in place among other attitudes? How do they keep racism from being destructive?

Essay Topic 2

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.

Essay Topic 3

What is missing from this book? What should have been covered or presented that was not? What is the effect of this absence? Describe an element that ought to have been covered, and explain why it would have made the book stronger.

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