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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) Vulgar and humorous.
(b) Direct and depressing.
(c) General and encouraging.
(d) Vague and confusing.

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

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

4. What does Mrs. Arkwright tell Jean when she sees her in the market?
(a) She tells Jean to come to her if she needs help.
(b) She tells Jean her mother is a saint.
(c) She tells Jean her mother is mad.
(d) She tells Jean to stop living by someone else's rules.

5. How does pastor Finch, the visiting pastor, make Jean feel?
(a) Possessed by a demon.
(b) Like a prodigal child.
(c) Scared and uneasy.
(d) Devoted.

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

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

8. 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 abducted children.
(d) They drank.

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

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

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

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

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

14. 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) Pastor Spratt.
(d) A newborn baby.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Jean think she hears coming from the neighbor's house?

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

3. How does Jean's mother refer to their neighbors?

4. Who finally discovers that Jean is deaf?

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

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