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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Melanie do at the end of her fist service at Jean's church?
(a) Reluctantly agrees to come to another.
(b) Invites Jean out to lunch.
(c) Throws up.
(d) Asks for forgiveness in front of the whole congregation.

2. Which of the following is something Jean's mother routinely is likely to say first thing to her on Sundays?
(a) All of the above.
(b) Who was the oldest man in the Bible?
(c) The Lord is good.
(d) What sort of tea is this?

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

4. Why is the paper shop "forbidden" and its owners talked about?
(a) All of the above.
(b) The owners had been members of the church but left.
(c) They held seances in the basement.
(d) The owners are two women who share a bed.

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

6. What does Jean's mother call the public school?
(a) The devils work.
(b) The corrupter of children.
(c) The breeding ground.
(d) The mill of brainwashing.

7. What is her mother's response when Jean asks her why she married her father?
(a) " I couldn't make it on my own."
(b) "I loved him."
(c) " I needed him."
(d) "We had to have something for you."

8. How does Jean's mother refer to their neighbors?
(a) John and Meg's family.
(b) That poor family.
(c) The Johnsons.
(d) Next Door.

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

10. What does the woman at the vermin shop give Jean?
(a) A fever.
(b) The creeps.
(c) Some empty tins.
(d) Some oranges.

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

12. What does Jean's mother always say about oranges?
(a) They are not the only fruit.
(b) They are the only fruit.
(c) They are sent from God.
(d) They keep you from getting sick.

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

14. What does Jean worry about before her operation?
(a) If the nurse will throw away her orange peel.
(b) Not getting her hearing back.
(c) Dying from the anesthetia.
(d) All of the above.

15. How does Jean pass the time she spends in the children's ward at the hospital?
(a) Making igloos out of her orange peels.
(b) Talking with other kids.
(c) Looking at sick people.
(d) Contemplating the Lord.

Short Answer Questions

1. What story does the telling of Jean's own beginnings parallel?

2. How successful are Jean's art projects at school?

3. Which of the following best describes the religious zeal of Jean's mother?

4. What does Jean's mother have her do in the market for the special conference for the Society?

5. What does the palm reader tell Jean one year at the fair?

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