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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What do people do when they tell stories?
(a) Spread the truth.
(b) Bring perspective.
(c) Convince themselves.
(d) Make them what they will.

2. According to Jean, what do people often use history for?
(a) To keep busy looking at something other than the present.
(b) A way of defining self.
(c) To not feel lost.
(d) A way of denying the past.

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

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

5. How intent is Jean on becoming a missionary?
(a) It is her life mission.
(b) She doesn't want to.
(c) She would like to, but the church won't let her.
(d) She wants to enroll in missionary school as a way to stay with the church.

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

7. When Jean does not repent for the pastor, what does he tell Jean's mother to do?
(a) Pray continuously for her.
(b) Lock Jean in her room and not feed her.
(c) Kick her out of the house.
(d) Supervise her at all times.

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

9. Who does Jean find when she returns home after being accused at church?
(a) Melanie's parents.
(b) The pastor and a group of elders from the church.
(c) Her biological mother.
(d) Melanie.

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

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

12. What does Jean's mother call Jean's romantic love for another woman?
(a) Intentionally mocking her.
(b) Rebelliousness.
(c) Cowardice.
(d) Aping men.

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

14. What are the names of the sorcerer's ravens?
(a) Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego.
(b) Fate and Destiny.
(c) Each one was one of the seven deadly sins.
(d) Faith, Hope, and Charity.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What do Jean's mother and the pastor argue about?

2. What matters when looking at the past?

3. What opinion of many has history changed since the Pilgrim fathers first set sail?

4. Who tries to help Jean after she is accused by the pastor?

5. According to the chapter, Deuteronomy, what is time?

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