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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. How does Irene want to respond to John Bellew?

2. For what organization is Irene going to do some business?

3. What invitation does Irene accept from Clare?

4. Where does Irene want Brian to take Junior?

5. How many black people has John Bellew met?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Brian tell Irene about someone who can pass for white?

2. What is Irene's intention in bring up Junior's problems?

3. When did Clare disappear from the Chicago neighborhood where she and Irene lived?

4. After Clare and Irene run into each other at the hotel, when do they plan to meet again? How does Irene really feel about seeing her again?

5. How do Irene and Gertrude feel after they leave the meeting with Clare and John?

6. How was Clare secretive when she ran into Irene?

7. What does Brian advise Irene to do about Clare?

8. Where does Irene travel to the day after her meeting with Clare? How does Irene first respond to Clare's note?

9. When did Irene become reacquainted with her childhood friend, Clare Kendry? What were the circumstances?

10. What is some background information about the author?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Summarize Part 3, Chapters 3 and 4 which are the concluding chapters of the book.

a) How does Irene feel when she runs into John?

b) What does she regret not telling him?

Essay Topic 2

What are physical descriptions of Irene and Clare? What indications are there that both women are light-skinned?

Essay Topic 3

Describe how racism is introduced into the story.

a) What does Irene remember about Clare "passing"?

b) What conflict between the two is foreshadowed?

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