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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does the palm reader tell Jean one year at the fair?
(a) That she does not know her real self.
(b) That she is a child of God.
(c) That she is destined for great works.
(d) That she will never marry.

2. What does Jean's mother tell Jean about her experience with Pierre?
(a) It was the only time she felt love.
(b) What she thought was love ended up being an ulcer.
(c) She learned men are not to be trusted.
(d) She nearly succombed to a life of sin.

3. Who is the faithful companion to the prince?
(a) A childhood friend.
(b) An old goose.
(c) An old crone.
(d) The Lord.

4. Why does Pastor Finch carry a First Aid kit in his van?
(a) In case the demon combusted somebody.
(b) His revivals are so animated he usually needs it.
(c) He felt responsible for the young choir members.
(d) Tubas are dangerous.

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

6. Why don't Melanie and Jean think what they are doing is the "unnatural passions" they hear about?
(a) Because Pastor Finch says unnatural passions are awful.
(b) They just don't think about it.
(c) They don't know the normal boundaries of friendship.
(d) Because they are sure they are holy.

7. On Melanie's first visit to Jean's church, who is the only one that sits out of the dancing and music making of Pastor Finch's new song?
(a) Melanie.
(b) Jean.
(c) Jean's mother.
(d) The woman from the paper shop.

8. What is Pastor Finch's sermon about the first day Melanie is in the church?
(a) Unnatural passions.
(b) Turning the other cheek.
(c) Forgiveness.
(d) The unbounded love of God.

9. Which of the following best describes the religious zeal of Jean's mother?
(a) Love and pacifism.
(b) Meek.
(c) Old Testament.
(d) A Sunday believer.

10. What story does the telling of Jean's own beginnings parallel?
(a) The creation story.
(b) Her mother's childhood.
(c) The birth of Jesus.
(d) Cinderella.

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

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

13. Which of the following is a tactic that Jean uses to answer her questions about men?
(a) Listening to women gossip.
(b) Asking her aunt.
(c) Reading fairy tales.
(d) All of the above.

14. What what Jean's mother's response when Jean told her about the marriage dream she had?
(a) She said it was because Jean ate sardines the night before.
(b) She reassured her that her own marriage would be nothing like that.
(c) She offered to take Jean to a dream analyst.
(d) She said she had had similiar dreams when she was young.

15. What idea from the sermon she heard at the special conference had the biggest impact on Jean?
(a) That God is perfection.
(b) None of the above.
(c) That perfection is unobtainable.
(d) That perfection is flawlessness.

Short Answer Questions

1. Which of the following best characterizes the way Jean's mother sees the world?

2. What does Mrs. Arkwright tell Jean when she sees her in the market?

3. What does the girl tell the adviser who tries to take her to the prince?

4. What does the woman at the vermin shop give Jean?

5. What was in the package that came from Wigan?

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