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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who are the wombats?
(a) The black students.
(b) The school mascots.
(c) Mentally retarded white kids.
(d) The Hispanic students.

2. What is just ending for Lorene at the beginning of the novel?
(a) Her time in school.
(b) Her teaching career.
(c) Her daughter's time in school.
(d) Her term as a trustee.

3. What has Mr. Evans given to Lorene?
(a) A book.
(b) An expensive fountain pen.
(c) A journal.
(d) A typewriter.

4. Who is Nana Hamilton?
(a) Lorene's mother.
(b) Lorene's grandmother.
(c) Lorene's friend.
(d) Lorene's teacher.

5. What is Lorene impressed by at the location of the meet and greet?
(a) Yeadon's dinginess.
(b) Germantown's cobblestone streets.
(c) Philadelphia's racial tension.
(d) New York's filth.

Short Answer Questions

1. When does Black Ice begin?

2. Into what class is Lorene admitted?

3. Where do Lorene and her parents pass through on their way to St. Paul's?

4. Why do the white girls say that they don't say anything around Lorene?

5. Who is Mrs. Evans?

(see the answer key)

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