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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Deuteronomy.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Jean usually do to the Brillo pad monkey in the collage at Elsie's when she plays with it?
(a) Makes it take over the ark.
(b) Drowns it.
(c) Has a lion from the ark eat it.
(d) Has it find God and start to pray.

2. How is this fifth chapter of ORANGES ARE NOT THE ONLY FRUIT best characterized?
(a) Cautionary and paranoid.
(b) Simple and straightforward.
(c) Spiritual and Godly.
(d) Symbolic and metaphorical.

3. What does Jean's mother worry about?
(a) That Jean was spending too much time with Graham.
(b) That Jean might not make a good missionary.
(c) That Jean would get carried away by passions.
(d) That Jean would find out she is Pierre's child.

4. In general terms, what is the chapter Deuteronomy about?
(a) The importance of having stories.
(b) How people see the past.
(c) How to choose what you should believe.
(d) The importance of being curious.

5. What does Jean say about the past?
(a) The lens to see it can be tinted and tilted and smashed.
(b) Once it could change its mind, now it can only undergo change.
(c) It is only malleable where once it was flexible.
(d) All of the above.

Short Answer Questions

1. What do people do that Jean thinks is folly?

2. What does Jean ask for when her mother takes her to town to buy mince?

3. Why was Jean's mother suspicious of a package that came from Wigan?

4. How can Sundays at the house where Jean grew up best be described?

5. What important notion does Elsie impart to Jean?

(see the answer key)

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