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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What change was made at St. Paul's in 1971?
(a) It started to accept blacks.
(b) It started an Affirmative Action program.
(c) It started to transition to being an all-black school.
(d) It went gone co-ed.

2. Who told Lorene about St. Paul's?
(a) Her teacher in school.
(b) Mrs. Evans.
(c) Her mother.
(d) Mr. Evans.

3. In what way is Jimmy Hill notable to Lorene?
(a) He is very militant.
(b) He is very thin.
(c) He is very tall.
(d) He is very fat.

4. What is the scene where Black Ice begins?
(a) Summer vacation on Martha's Vineyard.
(b) The first day of school.
(c) The day before Christmas break.
(d) Graduation.

5. Where does Lorene go to school?
(a) Cornell.
(b) Philips Exeter.
(c) St. Paul's.
(d) Yale.

6. How has Lorene maintained her ties to St. Paul's?
(a) She worked there as an admissions officer.
(b) She worked as an alumni liaison.
(c) She taught writing there.
(d) She worked there in the cafeteria.

7. Why do the white girls say that they don't say anything around Lorene?
(a) Because she accuses them of being racist.
(b) Because she gets mad.
(c) Because she is so naïve.
(d) Because she is so innocent.

8. Where does Lorene work?
(a) A fast food restaurant.
(b) A grocery store.
(c) A fish market.
(d) A gas station.

9. 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 very similar to hers.
(d) It would be the same experience all black students had in white schools.

10. What is Lorene's little sister's feeling about Lorene staying at St. Paul's for school?
(a) She is a mixture of all kinds of emotions.
(b) She is hysterical.
(c) She is glad to be free of her older sister.
(d) She is beaming with pride.

11. What does Jimmy Hill mean when he says that he and Lorene will 'turn out' St. Paul's?
(a) They will show what it means to have soul.
(b) They will stand up to the whites.
(c) They will get in as much trouble as possible without being thrown out.
(d) They will find the classiest places to hang out.

12. Who has Lorene married since graduation?
(a) She has not married.
(b) Jimmy.
(c) Ricky Lockhart.
(d) A white man.

13. How does Lorene describe her parents?
(a) Protective adoptive white couple in their 40s.
(b) Ambitious black couple in their 30s.
(c) Humble mixed-race couple in their 40s.
(d) Devout black Quakers in their 30s.

14. About what does Lorene say she wants to start a discussion?
(a) Growing up black in America.
(b) Modern ideas about women's rights.
(c) The history of slavery in the North.
(d) America's ideas about workers' rights.

15. 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. Who is Lee Bouton?

2. When does Lorene get mad?

3. Who are the wombats?

4. What does Lorene feel she has done, by getting into St. Paul's?

5. How many kids does Lorene have?

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