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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 are white students anxious to disown, according to Lorene?

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

3. What does Alma say years later was Lorene's relationship with her?

4. What does Lorene want from her education?

5. What happens during Ricky Lockhart's visit?

Short Essay Questions

1. Describe Lorene's friendship with India.

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

3. Describe Lorene's rendezvous with Ricky Lockhart at his school.

4. What happens with the cook who everyone fears?

5. Describe Lorene's campaign for student council.

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

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

8. Describe Lorene's relationship with Anthony Wade.

9. What is Lorene's relationship with Alma?

10. Who are Annette and Grace?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

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 2

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?

Essay Topic 3

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?

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