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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. Who is Booker?

2. What is Grace's ethnicity?

3. What is Lorene's strategy for passing her worst subject?

4. What was Lorene's worst subject?

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

Short Essay Questions

1. Describe Lorene's friendship with Janie Saunders.

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

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

4. Describe Lorene's meeting with Archibald Cox.

5. Describe Lorene's date with Booker.

6. What does black ice symbolize?

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

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

9. Who are Annette and Grace?

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

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?

Essay Topic 2

Write a character sketch of the author based on her style and content. What values does she hold dear? What are her hopes and fears? What kind of person do you think she is? Anchor your sketch in passages in the book.

Essay Topic 3

Where is the climax of this book? Are there different climaxes? What questions does each climax resolve? What questions does each climax leave unanswered?

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