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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What do Lorene and her parents see at the meet and greet?
(a) Images of St. Paul's teachers and students.
(b) Alumni and faculty from St. Paul's.
(c) Slides of the campus of St. Paul's.
(d) Images of the library and academic buildings at St. Paul's.

2. In what play does Lorene have a role in Chapter 7?
(a) Cat on a Hot Tin Roof.
(b) Streetcar Named Desire.
(c) The Tempest.
(d) Alice in Wonderland.

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

4. What does Lorene's mother ask at the meet and greet?
(a) Who will protect her daughter from the white students' insults.
(b) Who will advocate for her daughter.
(c) Whether competition will be fair.
(d) Who will teach her daughter to withstand white culture.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

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

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

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

5. What arrangement did Lorene make for Ricky Lockhart's visit?

(see the answer key)

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