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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. How does Jean characterize a story heard from various perspectives?
(a) A stew with various ingrediants.
(b) A seamless wonder.
(c) A vegetable and cream, pureed together.
(d) A sandwich laced with mustard of her own.

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

3. What is Jean's role in the church after she is accused and repents?
(a) She is encouraged to preach about her own experience.
(b) She is looked at with joy as the prodigal daughter.
(c) She no longer is allowed to preach.
(d) Unchanged. She still preaches.

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

5. How does Jean characterize uncertainty to her?
(a) Like not having God.
(b) Like being blindfolded.
(c) Like being in a valley - having to choose a direction with no view.
(d) Like an aardvark - recognizable but unfamiliar.

Short Answer Questions

1. What happens to Winnet after she leaves the sorcerer?

2. When is the last time Jean sees Elsie?

3. Which of the following is a belief held by Jean's mother?

4. What does Jean say was a big problem looking at history after the second world war?

5. Where does Jean go right after repenting and being released from her lockdown?

Short Essay Questions

1. What do the pastor and Jean's mother propose after discovering Jean's continued interest in women, and what is Jean's response?

2. What does Jean tell the church to protect Katy?

3. What does the author say about the curious and the collector of curios?

4. How does Winnet end up living with the sorcerer and believing she is his daughter?

5. According to the chapter Deuteronomy what are some ways that people change or deny the past?

6. Describe how the author describes Pol Pot in relation to history in the chapter entitled Deuteronomy.

7. What is Jean's mother's reaction to the discovery of Jean's continued interest in women?

8. Where does Melanie go, and with whom, after being accused at church? What happens?

9. Describe the food metaphor the author uses to describe hearing about an event from various sources.

10. Who is Katy? What is her relationship to Jean?

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