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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 is Lorene's response to marijuana when she smokes it?

2. Why was Ricky Lockhart's visit a problem?

3. How many High Honors does Lorene have in her first report card?

4. What does Lorene pretend to do?

5. How does Lorene describe Ms. Clinton?

Short Essay Questions

1. What areLorene's grades like on her first report card?

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

3. Describe Lorene's campaign for student council.

4. Describe Lorene's meeting with Archibald Cox.

5. What happens with the cook who everyone fears?

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

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

8. What does black ice symbolize?

9. Describe Ricky Lockhart's visit to St. Paul's.

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Is blackness the same for all black students, or are there different blacknesses? How does Lorene's blackness compare with other black students' blackness?

Essay Topic 2

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?

Essay Topic 3

Black Ice can be read as an allegory for American culture, with its tension between black and white cultures. What does Black Ice say about how blacks and whites relate? What main problems does it identify, and how does it propose to solve those problems?

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