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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. Why does Lorene refuse to travel to California?

2. What is the significance of black ice for Lorene?

3. What is Grace's ethnicity?

4. What is Lorene's response to what happens during Ricky Lockhart's visit?

5. Of what is Lorene terrified by the end of Chapter 6?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does sitting on the Disciplinary Committee change Lorene?

2. Describe Lorene's visit to Ricky Lockhart in New York.

3. How has Lorene changed between her first year and her final year?

4. Describe Lorene's meeting with Archibald Cox.

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

6. Why is Lorene impatient with school?

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

8. Describe Lorene's friendship with India.

9. What is Lorene's relationship with Alma?

10. What is Lorene's experience of drugs like?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

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

Essay Topic 2

Describe Lorene's scale of values: what is most important to her, and what is least important, and why? What does this tell us about her character?

Essay Topic 3

In the end of Black Ice, Lorene is described as a trailblazer. What trail does she blaze, and what path does she leave behind her? For whom in particular does she blaze this path?

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