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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 refuse to do when she visits Ricky Lockhart?

2. What does Lorene pretend to do?

3. What does Lorene say she likes about her sport?

4. To what student council position does Lorene get elected?

5. How does Lorene describe Ricky Lockhart?

Short Essay Questions

1. Who are Annette and Grace?

2. Describe Lorene's friendship with India.

3. Describe Lorene's experience tutoring black students.

4. What is Lorene looking forward to by the end of her first year?

5. Who is Ricky Lockhart, and how does Lorene describe him?

6. What is Lorene's experience on the black ice?

7. Describe Lorene's workplace for the summer after her first year.

8. Describe Lorene's campaign for student council.

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

10. What is Lorene's relationship with Alma?

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

Where is the climax of this book? Are there different climaxes? What questions does each climax resolve? What questions does each climax leave unanswered?

Essay Topic 3

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?

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