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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 change is marked by Lorene hitting her sister?

2. About what can Lorene talk to India?

3. Where does Ricky Lockhart invite Lorene?

4. What does Lorene feel about the sport she chooses for spring?

5. What does Lorene say she looks forward to as part of her committee work?

Short Essay Questions

1. Describe Lorene's experience tutoring black students.

2. Describe Lorene's relationship with Anthony Wade.

3. Describe Lorene's campaign for student council.

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

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

6. What is Lorene's relationship with Alma?

7. Describe Lorene's meeting with Archibald Cox.

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

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

10. What does black ice symbolize?

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

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 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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