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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What was the Awful Occasion?
(a) The day Melanie left Jean.
(b) When Jean first realized she was involved in "unnatural passions".
(c) The time Jean's parents nearly separated.
(d) The time Jean's real mother came to claim her.

2. What does Jean compare history to?
(a) Our own personal past.
(b) Fairy tales.
(c) A religious text.
(d) A string full of knots.

3. How are Jean and Katy discovered?
(a) Jean announces their love to the whole congregation.
(b) Jean's mom finds their letters.
(c) They forgot to lock their door and someone looked in while they were in bed.
(d) Katy confesses everything to the pastor.

4. Who talks to Jean and supports her when everyone else was accusing her?
(a) Mrs Arkwright.
(b) Jean's father.
(c) Elsie.
(d) Melanie.

5. According to Jean, what do people often use history for?
(a) To not feel lost.
(b) A way of defining self.
(c) To keep busy looking at something other than the present.
(d) A way of denying the past.

6. What does Jean feel when she looks at a history book?
(a) She is repulsed by the pretention.
(b) She is astonished at the imaginative effort.
(c) She is curious about the new story.
(d) None of the above.

7. What do people do that Jean thinks is folly?
(a) Stop changing how they see the world.
(b) Attach themselves to other people.
(c) Separate story telling from history.
(d) Define the world.

8. What happens to Winnet after she leaves the sorcerer?
(a) She never learns to talk the way the villagers do, even though she wants to.
(b) All the above.
(c) She hears of a beautiful city and decides to go there.
(d) She is taken in by a villager who is kind to her.

9. What do Jean and Mrs. Jewsbury do after Jean is accused at church?
(a) Make love.
(b) Drink brandy.
(c) Talk.
(d) All of the above.

10. What does Jean say about things that are dead?
(a) They don't have the tiresome messiness of live things.
(b) There is a certain seductiveness about them.
(c) All of the above.
(d) They have all the admirable qualities of life.

11. Where does Jean dream she is when she falls asleep?
(a) With everyone who can't make the ultimate decision.
(b) In the city of Lost Chances.
(c) In a bookshop.
(d) All of the above.

12. Who is the boy Winnet makes friends with?
(a) A stranger from another land.
(b) The sorcerer's other apprentice.
(c) Another sorcerer.
(d) A boy from the village.

13. Who knew about Jean and Melanie and tried to help them?
(a) Jean's father.
(b) The shoolmaster.
(c) Melainie's mother.
(d) Elsie.

14. Where did Katy and Jean go together?
(a) Away to college.
(b) Morecambe guest house.
(c) To Katy's parents.
(d) To see the big city.

15. What are Jean and Melanie accused of during the sermon?
(a) Not loving God.
(b) Falling under Satan's spell.
(c) All of the above.
(d) Loving each other with a love reserved for man and wife.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Jean call treating the past with objective respect?

2. Who does Jean meet during a tent mission in Blackpool?

3. What advice is Jean trying to give us at the end of the chapter titled Deuteronomy?

4. What does Jean say of the collector of curios?

5. What does Jean's mother call Jean's romantic love for another woman?

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