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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

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

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

5. How was the special conference for the Society a turning point for Jean?
(a) It was when she began to develop her first theological disagreement.
(b) It was when she saw her mother through someone else's eyes.
(c) It was when she first saw Pastor Spratt.
(d) It was when she was confirmed into the Society.

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

7. When Jean's mother gets a letter about Jean from the headmistress, what does she do?
(a) Takes her to church to confess her sins.
(b) Grounds Jean for a week.
(c) Encourages her to keep it up until the school let Jean stay home.
(d) Laughs and takes Jean to the movies as a treat.

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

9. What does Jean's mother do when she identifies the sound coming from next door?
(a) All of the above.
(b) Sends Jean out for ice cream.
(c) Starts singing hymns loudly.
(d) Claps her hands over Jean's ears.

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

11. What condition does Jean's mother insist on to let Jean go to the fair once a year?
(a) That she write a report afterwards on evils of the fair.
(b) That she confess and cleanse herself the next day.
(c) That she will bring back black peas from the gypsies.
(d) That she try and convert the gypsies.

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

13. Why was Jean's mother suspicious of a package that came from Wigan?
(a) She had been told Wigan was full of the devils minions.
(b) The only person she knew there was an old lover.
(c) The agency for adoption was in Wigan.
(d) It was where her family lived.

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

15. What does Mrs Arkwright do for Jean in the market?
(a) She gives Jean some food.
(b) She lets Jean put her orange box in her stall out of the rain.
(c) She takes some of pamplets to put up herself.
(d) Lends Jean her cart to haul apples.

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. What does Jean overhear her mother say about the people that invited her to the seashore?

4. What does Jean's mother see in a child when she decided she wanted one?

5. Which of the following is something Jean's mother routinely is likely to say first thing to her on Sundays?

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