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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What does Jean's mother do to get at the "heathens" who live next door?
(a) Preaches to them over the garden fence.
(b) Plays the piano and sings hymns really loudly.
(c) Leaves pamphlets in their mailbox.
(d) Knocks on their door every Sunday to tell them about the Lord.

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

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

5. What important notion does Elsie impart to Jean?
(a) That she has to be her own person.
(b) That God is not always right.
(c) That there are two worlds, the physical and another.
(d) That we must tend the things we love.

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

7. What does Jean's mother have her do in the market for the special conference for the Society?
(a) None of the above.
(b) Tack fliers up all around.
(c) Stand on an orange box and shout what was going on.
(d) Buy all the apples from the market to symbolically remove temptation.

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

9. What do Jean and her mother do routinely on Sunday mornings?
(a) Enjoy a conversation over tea.
(b) Discuss how the Lord has blessed their lives.
(c) Cook an extravagant lunch.
(d) Take notes on the World Service radio program.

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

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

12. Where does Jean's mom get her a new mac?
(a) Marks & Spencer.
(b) A booth in the market.
(c) A seconds shop.
(d) The butcher's lost and found.

13. What does Jean think she hears coming from the neighbor's house?
(a) Pastor Spratt.
(b) The voice of God.
(c) Cries for help.
(d) A puppy.

14. What does Jean help do one year when they go to Morecambe?
(a) Play the tambourine for Pastor Spratt.
(b) Calculate the number of heathen in England.
(c) Make wreaths for a boarding school where there had been an epidemic.
(d) Mail pamphlets to the unholy.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

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

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

4. Who does the protagonist Jean live with?

5. Why does Jean like Elsie?

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