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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. What must Winnet do to reach the beautiful city?

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

3. When the pastor and Jean's mother try to set up another exorcism, what does Jean say?

4. Who comes to visit Jean while she is locked in her room?

5. In general terms, what is the chapter Deuteronomy about?

Short Essay Questions

1. What happens that makes the sorcerer cast Winnet out?

2. What makes Jean's mother aware of what is happening between Jean and Melanie?

3. What is the nature of stories and history and how does she describe them?

4. What happens at Elsie's funeral?

5. How was Katy and Jean's relationship discovered by the members of the church?

6. Who is a friend to Jean after she is exposed for loving women for the second time? What does she do to help?

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

8. What happens when Jean finally returns home after being accused by the pastor in church?

9. Describe what happened when Jean's biological mother returned to claim her.

10. What must Winnet do to reach the beautiful city? What is it like when she reaches it?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

The author uses parables throughout her story in ORANGES ARE NOT THE ONLY FRUIT. Write a parable for your own story.

Part 1. Give us the general situation of a time in your life when you were going through something you would like to represent through a story.

Part 2. Create and tell the story that will shed understanding or light onto your situation for the reader.

Part 3. Explain your story and how it relates to your situation in life. Do you think your story was effective in adding depth or meaning to the description of your situation?

Essay Topic 2

The action of the novel happens in a community of Pentecostal Evangelists, and the conflict in the story is caused by their beliefs.

Part 1. Who are the Pentecostal Evangelists, and what do they believe in?

Part 2. Have they changed since the 1960s when this story took place?

Part 3. What would it be like to be raised in such a community?

Essay Topic 3

At the end of one of the chapters in the book, the author includes a brief description of a historical moment of the storming of the Winter Palace. It adds depth to her story because although she shows us just a moment of relative inaction, the reader knows the outcome of the historical moment and so gets a hint of a possible outcome for her story.

Part 1. What was the storming of the Winter Palace that she referred to, and how did it relate to her story?

Part 2. Choose a pivotal moment in your own life that you can somehow equate with a moment in history. What was the moment in your life? What historical moment?

Part 3. Analyze how the moment of your own life is comparable to that moment in history, and what does representing that moment in history bring to your own story?

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