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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who knew about Jean and Melanie and tried to help them?
(a) Elsie.
(b) Melainie's mother.
(c) The shoolmaster.
(d) Jean's father.

2. 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 was weak.
(c) Jean's father was not a strong enough character.
(d) The church had allowed women too much power in preaching.

3. What does the sorcerer do for Winnet to help her feel safe dining with him?
(a) He tells her his name.
(b) He tells her details of her own life.
(c) He draws a chalk circle with a little gap in it for her to step into and then close.
(d) He gives her the source of his power.

4. How does Jean characterize a story heard from various perspectives?
(a) A seamless wonder.
(b) A stew with various ingrediants.
(c) A sandwich laced with mustard of her own.
(d) A vegetable and cream, pureed together.

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

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

7. How are Jean and Katy discovered?
(a) Jean announces their love to the whole congregation.
(b) Katy confesses everything to the pastor.
(c) Jean's mom finds their letters.
(d) They forgot to lock their door and someone looked in while they were in bed.

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

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

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

11. What does Jean say was a big problem looking at history after the second world war?
(a) Constipation.
(b) The need to generate new stories.
(c) Not a large enough bowl.
(d) Too many ingrediants.

12. What allows Jean to spend many nights with Melanie?
(a) Nobody cared about her whereabouts.
(b) The church group often slept at each other's homes.
(c) Her mother approved of the friendship.
(d) She lied about where she was.

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

14. What does Jean's mother do after Jean has repented?
(a) Tells her about her own affair with another woman.
(b) Signs Jean up for missionary school.
(c) Takes a more personal interest in Jean's day to day life.
(d) Burns all the cards and pictures that would remind Jean of Melanie.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. How much warning do Jean and Melanie have of what will happen at church when they are separated?

2. Which of the following best characterizes a belief held by Jean's mother?

3. Who is the boy Winnet makes friends with?

4. Where does Winnet meet the sorcerer?

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

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