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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter Ten.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is Grace's ethnicity?
(a) Puerto Rican.
(b) Black.
(c) White
(d) Chinese-American.

2. How does Lorene describe her parents?
(a) Devout black Quakers in their 30s.
(b) Protective adoptive white couple in their 40s.
(c) Humble mixed-race couple in their 40s.
(d) Ambitious black couple in their 30s.

3. What does Lorene say about what her daughter's experience of school is likely to be?
(a) It would be the same experience all black students had in white schools.
(b) It would be very similar to hers.
(c) It would be a new experience in human history.
(d) It would be different from hers.

4. How long has it been, at the beginning of the book, since Lorene graduated from high school?
(a) 6 years.
(b) 15 years.
(c) 9 years.
(d) 1 year.

5. What does Lorene say everyone says about her education at St. Paul's?
(a) That she is not learning anything.
(b) That she is getting a useless education.
(c) That she has a good start.
(d) That she is getting a master-class education.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who told Lorene about St. Paul's?

2. On what committee does Lorene sit, in Chapter 10?

3. What is the outcome of Lorene's call to St. Paul's?

4. What does Lorene dream about in her first term at St. Paul's?

5. Of what does the opening scene remind Lorene?

(see the answer key)

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