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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the outcome of Lorene's call to St. Paul's?
(a) She sets up a meeting.
(b) She arranges a campus visit.
(c) She agrees to meet an alumnus to talk about St. Paul's.
(d) She has an application sent to her house.

2. About what does Lorene say it is easiest to write?
(a) Literature.
(b) Race.
(c) St. Paul's.
(d) Politics.

3. What does Lorene say her feelings about calling St. Paul's were?
(a) Shame.
(b) Pride.
(c) Nervousness.
(d) Humility.

4. Where does Lorene go for the meet and greet with St. Paul's students?
(a) Germantown.
(b) St. Paul's.
(c) Yeadon.
(d) New York.

5. What does Lorene say about black ice at the end of the novel?
(a) That she will save her students from having to learn how to drive on it by experience.
(b) That she will teach her students to use it for their own good.
(c) That she will keep her kids from skating on it.
(d) That she has never skated on it.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is St. Paul's looking for, in 1971?

2. How is Lorene portrayed in the summary of the novel?

3. About what does Lorene say it is hardest to write?

4. What change was made at St. Paul's in 1971?

5. Where has Alma ended up, after graduation?

(see the answer key)

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