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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is Jean's role in the church after she is accused and repents?
(a) She is encouraged to preach about her own experience.
(b) Unchanged. She still preaches.
(c) She no longer is allowed to preach.
(d) She is looked at with joy as the prodigal daughter.

2. How does Jean feel about her church before she is accused in the sermon?
(a) She feels like she is untouchable.
(b) She feels stifled and nervous.
(c) She is nervous about what would happen if they found out.
(d) She feels safe and there was nowhere she'd rather be.

3. What are Jean and Melanie accused of during the sermon?
(a) Falling under Satan's spell.
(b) Not loving God.
(c) All of the above.
(d) Loving each other with a love reserved for man and wife.

4. Which of the following is a belief held by Jean's mother?
(a) Preaching is a man's role and innappropriate for women.
(b) Women have important missionary work.
(c) All of the above.
(d) Jean's "demon" stemmed from her inability to realize the limitations of her sex.

5. What is the meeting of the Sisterhood like when Jean shows up after her second affair?
(a) Tense and awkward.
(b) Supportive and loving.
(c) Solid guidance.
(d) Unchanged from usual.

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

7. What was Jean's relationship to Katy?
(a) Katy was her most uncomplicated love affair.
(b) Katy was Jean's proof that she was over women.
(c) Jean had a crush on Katy for years but denied it to herself and everyone.
(d) They were close friends in the church.

8. What opinion of many has history changed since the Pilgrim fathers first set sail?
(a) That they were crazy.
(b) That they would circumvent the globe.
(c) That the known is better than the unknown.
(d) None of the above.

9. What do Jean's mother and the pastor argue about?
(a) If Jean can still preach at church.
(b) How suited Jean would be to be a missionary.
(c) Whether Jean is a wicked person or unfortunate victim.
(d) The best way to exorcise demons.

10. What must Winnet do to reach the beautiful city?
(a) Push her boat out alone into an immense sea she was afraid of.
(b) All the above.
(c) Learn the ways of boat builders.
(d) Leave everything she knows.

11. How much does Jean tell her mother about Melanie?
(a) She hides the friendship entirely.
(b) She only tells things that are absolutely necessary.
(c) She naively tells her absolutely everything.
(d) As much as she could, but not everything.

12. When is the last time Jean sees Elsie?
(a) The church holds a wake for Elsie and Jean attends.
(b) Jean spends the night at her side in the funeral parlor.
(c) Elsie comes out to her ice cream truck to tell Jean she' dying.
(d) Jean visits her in the hospital early in the morning so she won't run into anyone.

13. What do Jean and Mrs. Jewsbury do after Jean is accused at church?
(a) All of the above.
(b) Talk.
(c) Drink brandy.
(d) Make love.

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

15. What does Jean's visitor tell her while she is locked in?
(a) She shouldn't believe everything she reads in the Bible.
(b) Demons aren't evil, just different.
(c) All of the above.
(d) If she ignores this issue, she'll end up in pieces.

Short Answer Questions

1. What instructions does the pastor give Jean after she refuses to repent?

2. Which of the following best characterizes the way Jean sees the past?

3. What does Jean say about things that are dead?

4. What must explorers bring back?

5. How does Jean characterize uncertainty to her?

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