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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What does Jean feel when she looks at a history book?
(a) She is repulsed by the pretention.
(b) She is curious about the new story.
(c) None of the above.
(d) She is astonished at the imaginative effort.

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

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

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

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

7. Who does Jean say history is?
(a) You image in a mirror.
(b) Picasso.
(c) A fickle lover.
(d) St. George.

8. 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 not having God.
(d) Like being blindfolded.

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

10. Who comes to visit Jean while she is locked in her room?
(a) Melanie.
(b) Elsie.
(c) The pastor.
(d) An orange demon.

11. What does Jean say about things that are dead?
(a) They have all the admirable qualities of life.
(b) They don't have the tiresome messiness of live things.
(c) There is a certain seductiveness about them.
(d) All of the above.

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

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

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

15. What does she advise you to do if you want to keep your own teeth?
(a) Don't be curious.
(b) Try not sinking them into history.
(c) Make your own sandwiches.
(d) Stay out of other people's stories.

Short Answer Questions

1. What matters when looking at the past?

2. What does Jean compare history to?

3. What does Jean say of the collector of curios?

4. When is the last time Jean sees Elsie?

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

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