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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 always say about oranges?
(a) They are sent from God.
(b) They keep you from getting sick.
(c) They are not the only fruit.
(d) They are the only fruit.

2. What does the prince in the story want to find?
(a) The Truth.
(b) Perfection.
(c) Happiness.
(d) A wife.

3. What reasons are given when adults discuss why Jean doesn't answer anyone?
(a) Jean is in a state of rapture.
(b) All of the above.
(c) Jean is seven, which is a holy number, and strange things happen in sevens.
(d) The Lord works in mysterious ways.

4. What schedule do Jean's parents keep at home?
(a) They change their schedule to match the radio broadcasts her mother listens to.
(b) Her mother goes to bed at four a.m., her father gets up an hour later.
(c) They all go to bed promptly at eight.
(d) Her father creeps downstairs at night to watch tv.

5. Why does Jean like Elsie?
(a) She wants to become a missionary too.
(b) She has interesting things in her house.
(c) She encourages Jean to be herself.
(d) She admires her devotion to God.

6. How does Melanie end up coming to a church service at Jean's church?
(a) Her mother is a friend of Elsies and takes her.
(b) She wanders in by coincidence.
(c) She is looking for Jean.
(d) Jean asks her to come over a baked potato.

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

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

9. Who invites Jean to go to the seaside?
(a) The family next door.
(b) None of the above.
(c) The gypsies.
(d) Two unmarried women who run a comic shop.

10. What does Jean discover when she reads the book JANE EYRE?
(a) It explained a lot about men.
(b) There was a world of feelings she was unaware of.
(c) Her mother had changed the ending.
(d) She could relate closely to Jane Eyre.

11. Which of the following is in the book that the prince writes?
(a) All of the above.
(b) The corruption of opting for second best.
(c) An exhoration to single-mindedness.
(d) The need to produce a world of perfect beings.

12. What was the hardest part for Jean of her temporary deafness?
(a) Her mother's smothering protective attitude.
(b) Being cut off from everyone.
(c) Realizing the church was sometimes confused.
(d) Thinking she disliked a state of rapture.

13. What does Jean overhear her mother say about the people that invited her to the seashore?
(a) They drank.
(b) They were unholy.
(c) They abducted children.
(d) They dealt in unnatural passions.

14. Who does the protagonist Jean live with?
(a) Her mother and father.
(b) Her mother and stepfather.
(c) Her adoptive mother and father.
(d) Her mother.

15. What is one technique Jean's mother uses in the Society for the Lost?
(a) She preaches on street corners.
(b) She sends out literature about hell and damnation.
(c) She passedsout pamphlets at other churches.
(d) She gives away gifts to members.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is Pastor Finch's sermon about the first day Melanie is in the church?

2. What does Jean's mother worry about?

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

4. Why is the paper shop "forbidden" and its owners talked about?

5. When a sleeve of Jean's mac gets torn off at the market, what does her mother do?

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