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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 view from the white students frustrates Lorene?

2. How does Lorene describe Ms. Clinton?

3. With what does Lorene return to St. Paul's in Chapter 6?

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

5. Why does Lorene refuse to travel to California?

Short Essay Questions

1. Describe Lorene's friendship with Janie Saunders.

2. Describe Lorene's campaign for student council.

3. Why is Lorene impatient with school?

4. Describe Lorene's meeting with Archibald Cox.

5. What is Lorene's relationship with Alma?

6. Who are Annette and Grace?

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

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

9. What happens with the cook who everyone fears?

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

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?

Essay Topic 2

In the opening chapter, Lorene Carey says that she wants to start a discussion about growing up black. In what way is this book a conversation, and what would you say in response to Lorene Carey's book?

Essay Topic 3

One of the only times we see Lorene afraid is when she fears she is pregnant. What would being pregnant mean for her, or for her mother?

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