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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Jean's mother call the public school?
(a) The corrupter of children.
(b) The devils work.
(c) The mill of brainwashing.
(d) The breeding ground.

2. What does Jean find one day when she is looking for a pack of cards?
(a) The real ending to Jane Eyre.
(b) Love letters between her parents.
(c) Pictures of a strange man in her mother's desk.
(d) Her adoption papers.

3. Why was Jean's mother suspicious of a package that came from Wigan?
(a) The agency for adoption was in Wigan.
(b) The only person she knew there was an old lover.
(c) She had been told Wigan was full of the devils minions.
(d) It was where her family lived.

4. What is the moral of the story of the prince and the woman?
(a) Perfection is not flawlessness, but balance.
(b) The desire for perfection makes you evil.
(c) Perfection should always be strived for.
(d) Perfection is unobtainable.

5. Which of the following best describes the religious zeal of Jean's mother?
(a) A Sunday believer.
(b) Meek.
(c) Old Testament.
(d) Love and pacifism.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does the Society for the Lost fare under the direction of Jean's mother?

2. What important notion does Elsie impart to Jean?

3. Who is Pastor Spratt?

4. What does Jean's mother identify the sound coming from next door as?

5. What does Jean overhear her mother say about the people that invited her to the seashore?

Short Essay Questions

1. What is Jean's experience with the visiting pastor, Pastor Finch?

2. Describe the incident of the mac and its replacement.

3. What happens when Jean tries to tell her mother that she is going deaf?

4. What is the story of the sensitive princess?

5. Explain why this statement is relevant to Jean's predicament at school: "What constitutes a problem is not the thing, or the environment where we find the thing, but the conjunction of the two."

6. Who is Elsie? Describe her.

7. Why does Jean's mother tell Jean the story of her and Pierre? What does she hope to accomplish?

8. Who invites Jean to go to the seaside? What happens and why does her mother not let her?

9. What happens the first time Melanie goes to Jean's church?

10. How does Jean make friends with Melanie?

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