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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.
Multiple Choice Questions
1. How does Jean's mother refer to their neighbors?
(a) John and Meg's family.
(b) Next Door.
(c) That poor family.
(d) The Johnsons.
2. Why is the paper shop "forbidden" and its owners talked about?
(a) All of the above.
(b) The owners had been members of the church but left.
(c) They held seances in the basement.
(d) The owners are two women who share a bed.
3. What do Jean and her mother do routinely on Sunday mornings?
(a) Discuss how the Lord has blessed their lives.
(b) Cook an extravagant lunch.
(c) Enjoy a conversation over tea.
(d) Take notes on the World Service radio program.
4. Which of the following is a tactic that Jean uses to answer her questions about men?
(a) Reading fairy tales.
(b) Listening to women gossip.
(c) All of the above.
(d) Asking her aunt.
5. When Jean's mother gets a letter about Jean from the headmistress, what does she do?
(a) Takes her to church to confess her sins.
(b) Encourages her to keep it up until the school let Jean stay home.
(c) Laughs and takes Jean to the movies as a treat.
(d) Grounds Jean for a week.
6. What story does the telling of Jean's own beginnings parallel?
(a) The creation story.
(b) Cinderella.
(c) Her mother's childhood.
(d) The birth of Jesus.
7. Which of the following is in the book that the prince writes?
(a) The corruption of opting for second best.
(b) The need to produce a world of perfect beings.
(c) All of the above.
(d) An exhoration to single-mindedness.
8. Who spends the most time with Jean in the hospital?
(a) Jean's mother, who even sleeps there.
(b) Elsie.
(c) Jean's father, sent by her mother.
(d) Mrs Jewsbury.
9. How does Melanie end up coming to a church service at Jean's church?
(a) Jean asks her to come over a baked potato.
(b) Her mother is a friend of Elsies and takes her.
(c) She wanders in by coincidence.
(d) She is looking for Jean.
10. What does Jean think she hears coming from the neighbor's house?
(a) Pastor Spratt.
(b) Cries for help.
(c) A puppy.
(d) The voice of God.
11. What important notion does Elsie impart to Jean?
(a) That there are two worlds, the physical and another.
(b) That we must tend the things we love.
(c) That God is not always right.
(d) That she has to be her own person.
12. What happens when the pastor talks about how full of spirit Jean is while he is preaching?
(a) Everyone notices Jeans lack of response and realize she's deaf.
(b) Jean decides she is fit to become a missionary.
(c) Her deafness and lack of a response convinces everyone of her modesty.
(d) Jean decides to stop feeding things to lions when she plays.
13. What makes Jean's mother decide to get Jean a new mac?
(a) Running into Mrs Clifton who says she needs one.
(b) When the sleeve comes off.
(c) When she notices Jean's mac is getting threadbare.
(d) When Jean begs for one.
14. How can Sundays at the house where Jean grew up best be described?
(a) Family time.
(b) Vigorous in worship.
(c) A day of rest to think of the Lord.
(d) A day for a feast.
15. What does Jean realize when her sampler does not win in a school contest?
(a) No one else in school is like her.
(b) Her church does not prepare her for the world.
(c) A thing is not a problem, and it's environment is not a problem, but the conjunction of the two can be.
(d) The rest of the world does not like her church.
Short Answer Questions
1. What does Jean usually do to the Brillo pad monkey in the collage at Elsie's when she plays with it?
2. Which of the following best characterizes the way Jean's mother sees the world?
3. What stories does Jean's mother tell her as they sit on the memorial stone at the top of the hill?
4. What what Jean's mother's response when Jean told her about the marriage dream she had?
5. What does Melanie do at the end of her fist service at Jean's church?
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