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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What do people do when they tell stories?
(a) Bring perspective.
(b) Spread the truth.
(c) Make them what they will.
(d) Convince themselves.

3. What stories does Jean's mother tell her as they sit on the memorial stone at the top of the hill?
(a) Biblical stories.
(b) Stories of people converted to Christianity or those that refused salvation.
(c) Stories of her youth.
(d) Fairy tales.

4. Which of the following best characterizes the way Jean sees the past?
(a) Undefinable.
(b) Unimportant.
(c) A tool.
(d) A parable.

5. What does the pastor tell Jean when they run into each other?
(a) That he had handled the situation poorly.
(b) That Melanie never loved her.
(c) That the church missed her and her energy.
(d) The church was better without her.

Short Answer Questions

1. What allows Jean to spend many nights with Melanie?

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

3. How does Jean's attempt to tell her mother about her deafness go?

4. What is the meeting of the Sisterhood like when Jean shows up after her second affair?

5. Which of the following is a tactic that Jean uses to answer her questions about men?

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