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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 does Lorene feel about the sport she chooses for spring?

2. What does Lorene pretend to do?

3. Where was Lorene molested during her summer job?

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

5. What does Ricky Lockhart ask Lorene over the summer?

Short Essay Questions

1. What is Lorene's relationship with Alma?

2. What happens with the cook who everyone fears?

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

4. Describe Lorene's campaign for student council.

5. Describe Lorene's friendship with India.

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

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

8. Describe Lorene's relationship with Anthony Wade.

9. What does black ice symbolize?

10. Describe Lorene's date with Booker.

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 realistic is this book? What parts are not believable? What leaps of faith does the author require of you as a reader?

Essay Topic 3

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

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