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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does the pastor identify as the root cause of the problem with Jean?
(a) Jean was too wilful and not dedicated enough to following the law of the lord.
(b) Jean's father was not a strong enough character.
(c) The church had allowed women too much power in preaching.
(d) Jean was weak.

2. What does Jean say about the past?
(a) The lens to see it can be tinted and tilted and smashed.
(b) It is only malleable where once it was flexible.
(c) All of the above.
(d) Once it could change its mind, now it can only undergo change.

3. What is Jean's mother's response to the news about Jean's sexuality?
(a) She confesses her own affair with another woman.
(b) She breaks every plate in the house and calls the pastor.
(c) She demands Jean leave immediately for missionary school.
(d) She tells Jean they will always be family no matter what she does.

4. After her visitor, what does Jean announce she is ready to do?
(a) Move out.
(b) Get married.
(c) Repent.
(d) Never see Melanie again.

5. Which of the following best characterizes a belief held by Jean's mother?
(a) Everyone made themself and people what they wanted.
(b) All of the above.
(c) Jean's sexuality was a wilfull act to sell her soul.
(d) Everyone had a choice to be saved or fall to the devil.

6. Where does Winnet meet the sorcerer?
(a) Traveling through a forest.
(b) Near the river behind her home.
(c) He appears to her in dreams.
(d) In a town festival.

7. Who does Jean meet during a tent mission in Blackpool?
(a) A professor from Oxford.
(b) A new friend called Katy.
(c) A methodist minister.
(d) An orange demon.

8. What does the chapter titled Judges open with?
(a) The old saying "love conquers all"
(b) The prayer of St Francis.
(c) "from whom much has been given, much is expected"
(d) The queen announcing "either you or your head must be off!"

9. What is Winnet's punishment from the sorcerer?
(a) She has to watch the boy marry and raise a family with another girl.
(b) She has to leave, or tend the goats if she stays.
(c) She is turned into a raven.
(d) She is made to forget everyone she loves.

10. What do people do that Jean thinks is folly?
(a) Attach themselves to other people.
(b) Define the world.
(c) Stop changing how they see the world.
(d) Separate story telling from history.

11. Which of the following best characterizes the way Jean sees the past?
(a) A tool.
(b) Undefinable.
(c) Unimportant.
(d) A parable.

12. Where did Katy and Jean go together?
(a) Morecambe guest house.
(b) Away to college.
(c) To see the big city.
(d) To Katy's parents.

13. Why does Jean say her mother has always given her problems?
(a) She has faith above all else.
(b) She is hypocritical.
(c) She has her own agenda.
(d) She is enlightened and reactionary at the same time.

14. What does Jean tell the church?
(a) She was weak and the demon repossessed her.
(b) Love is never a sin.
(c) Her love affair with Melanie never ended.
(d) She would always love women.

15. What does Jean say of the collector of curios?
(a) He is the original living dead.
(b) He surrounds himself with dead things.
(c) He lives in a derelict railway station with a video of trains.
(d) All of the above.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Jean say people do with the past when it gets too difficult?

2. What does the sorcerer do to the boy Winnet befriends?

3. How intent is Jean on becoming a missionary?

4. What does the raven warn Winnet will happen if she stays in the place she loves?

5. What does Jean say about the curious?

(see the answer keys)

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