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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How many kids does Lorene have?
(a) One son and two daughters.
(b) Two daughters.
(c) One daughter.
(d) One son.

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

3. Where is Lorene from?
(a) Philadelphia.
(b) Trenton.
(c) New York.
(d) Washington D.C.

4. What does Lorene's mother say was unfair about the science fair in which Lorene was entered?
(a) Lorene's teachers made so many allowances for her that the competition wasn't fair.
(b) Teachers judged Lorene's work by a different standard.
(c) Teachers made exceptions for white students but not for Lorene.
(d) Teachers asked Lorene to participate in order to humiliate her.

5. Where does Chapter 1 take place?
(a) Lorene's grandparents' house.
(b) Lorene's high school.
(c) Lorene's parents' house.
(d) St. Paul's.

Short Answer Questions

1. How long has Lorene been teaching, at the beginning of the book?

2. What does Lorene say about her parents with regard to her going to school?

3. What does Lorene say life at St. Paul's resembles for black students?

4. What does Lorene say about where her daughter will go to school?

5. About what does Lorene say it is easiest to write?

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