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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What advice is Jean trying to give us at the end of the chapter titled Deuteronomy?
(a) Forget believing stories.
(b) There is not difference between fact and fiction.
(c) Don't rely on other's interpretations of stories.
(d) Eat healthy food.

2. What does the sorcerer want of Winnet?
(a) To convince the townspeople to trust him.
(b) To be his apprentice.
(c) To carry a message for him.
(d) To be his daughter.

3. Where does Jean go after being accused at church?
(a) To Mrs. Jewsbury's.
(b) To the top of the hill.
(c) Straight home.
(d) To the market where she met Melanie.

4. How does Jean characterize uncertainty to her?
(a) Like being in a valley - having to choose a direction with no view.
(b) Like an aardvark - recognizable but unfamiliar.
(c) Like being blindfolded.
(d) Like not having God.

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

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

7. Where does Jean go right after repenting and being released from her lockdown?
(a) To the employment office to be able to move.
(b) To the top of the hill to think alone.
(c) To church to pray.
(d) To find Melanie.

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

9. What happens to Winnet at the sorcerer's castle?
(a) She realizes she was born for this life.
(b) She learns the sorcerer is not evil.
(c) She grows very powerful.
(d) She forgot who she was and how she came to be there.

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

11. What does Jean compare history to?
(a) Our own personal past.
(b) A string full of knots.
(c) Fairy tales.
(d) A religious text.

12. What was the Awful Occasion?
(a) The day Melanie left Jean.
(b) The time Jean's parents nearly separated.
(c) When Jean first realized she was involved in "unnatural passions".
(d) The time Jean's real mother came to claim her.

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

14. What does the pastor tell Jean when they run into each other?
(a) The church was better without her.
(b) That he had handled the situation poorly.
(c) That the church missed her and her energy.
(d) That Melanie never loved her.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What do Jean and Mrs. Jewsbury do after Jean is accused at church?

2. What is Jean's mother's response to the news about Jean's sexuality?

3. In general terms, what is the chapter Deuteronomy about?

4. What happens at Elsie's funeral?

5. What does Jean's mother say of Jean's sexuality?

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