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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Who finally discovers that Jean is deaf?
(a) Her mother.
(b) The pastor.
(c) Jean's dance teacher.
(d) Mrs. Jewsbury, an oboe player.

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 on the tablecloth Jean's family uses on Sundays?
(a) Deeds of the Old Testament.
(b) Pictures of all the saints.
(c) Quotes from Jesus.
(d) Purple and yellow flowers.

5. What does Jean's mother identify the sound coming from next door as?
(a) Pastor Spratt.
(b) Fornicating.
(c) A newborn baby.
(d) The tape she left for them to play.

6. Which of the following best characterizes the information Jean gets from the other women regarding men and marriage?
(a) Direct and depressing.
(b) General and encouraging.
(c) Vulgar and humorous.
(d) Vague and confusing.

7. How does the Society for the Lost fare under the direction of Jean's mother?
(a) It is slowly becoming more and more radical.
(b) There are fewer converts every year.
(c) It doubled in membership.
(d) She launched Pastor Spratt to fame.

8. How does Jean get along with the other kids at school?
(a) Her wit and fearlessness make her an instant hit with the other kids.
(b) She is an outcast and doesn't make any friends.
(c) She makes friends with another misfit, but no one else.
(d) The teachers like her but the kids don't.

9. What does Jean realize when her sampler does not win in a school contest?
(a) Her church does not prepare her for the world.
(b) A thing is not a problem, and it's environment is not a problem, but the conjunction of the two can be.
(c) No one else in school is like her.
(d) The rest of the world does not like her church.

10. What cures the sensitive princess in the story?
(a) God's love.
(b) A magic spell.
(c) Her family's love.
(d) Real responsibilities and service.

11. What does Jean assume when she first senses hearing loss?
(a) She is in a state of rapture.
(b) It's normal.
(c) God is smiting her.
(d) She is getting old.

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

13. What is Jean's response when her mother informs her that if Jean doesn't go to school she'll go to jail?
(a) She would never ask that of her mother.
(b) None of the above.
(c) St. Paul was always going to prison and he always got out.
(d) School and jail are similar, so why does matter who goes?

14. What does Jean's mother see in a child when she decided she wanted one?
(a) All of the above.
(b) A missionary child.
(c) A blessing.
(d) A servant of God.

15. How successful are Jean's art projects at school?
(a) Praised because of her effort in them.
(b) Nobody understands them.
(c) Teachers are obliged to recognize their technical superiority.
(d) Rejected due to content.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Jean get a job washing glasses at Tricketts?

2. What do Jean and her mother do routinely on Sunday mornings?

3. What important notion does Elsie impart to Jean?

4. What is one technique Jean's mother uses in the Society for the Lost?

5. In the story at the end of the chapter titled Leviticus, what is the girl like?

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