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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. Who is Mrs. Evans' husband?
(a) Lorene's boss.
(b) The first black man on the staff of the Philadelphia Bulletin.
(c) A teacher at St. Paul's.
(d) A student at St. Paul's.

4. What does Lorene say the black kids at St. Paul's think?
(a) That they will always be servants and slaves.
(b) That they have been invited into a curriculum that transcends black and white.
(c) That it is the white kids' school.
(d) That they really own the school.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is Mr. Dick?

2. What does Lorene do after getting into St. Paul's?

3. What is just ending for Lorene at the beginning of the novel?

4. What is Lorene's strategy for passing her worst subject?

5. What is North Upper?

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