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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What does Jean's mother have hung above her oven where she can see it often?
(a) A picture of Jean.
(b) The prayer of St. Francis.
(c) A picture of her and her husband on their wedding day.
(d) A watercolor of the Lord painted by Pastor Spratt.

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

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

5. 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 don't know the normal boundaries of friendship.
(c) They just don't think about it.
(d) Because they are sure they are holy.

6. What function does Jean's mother's friend make wreaths for?
(a) Parades.
(b) Christmas.
(c) Funerals.
(d) Weddings.

7. What is the moral of the parable of the sensitive princess?
(a) Your family knows best.
(b) God's love conquers all.
(c) None of the above.
(d) Love is never misguided.

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

9. What job does Jean end up getting from the wreath-making friend?
(a) Getting the dead ready for burial at an undertaker's.
(b) Making wire forms for wreaths.
(c) Making wedding bouquets.
(d) Growing carnations.

10. What was in the package that came from Wigan?
(a) Tickets to a cruise.
(b) None of the above.
(c) Jean's biological parents' information.
(d) A letter from Pierre.

11. When a sleeve of Jean's mac gets torn off at the market, what does her mother do?
(a) Takes her to buy another one.
(b) Says she doesn't need a mac.
(c) Tapes it back on.
(d) Rips the other sleeve off and calls it a vest.

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

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

14. Which of the following best characterizes the way Jean's mother sees the world?
(a) As all God's creations.
(b) A confusing jumble of forces.
(c) A place of shadowy nuances.
(d) Black and white.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Jean worry about before her operation?

2. What happens when the pastor talks about how full of spirit Jean is while he is preaching?

3. What does Jean's mother call the public school?

4. What is the moral of the story of the prince and the woman?

5. What was the hardest part for Jean of her temporary deafness?

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