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

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

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

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

5. 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.

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

7. What does Jean envision her mother wishing for as she waits in her room?
(a) Her and her room to go up in flames while the house remained untouched.
(b) To be transported by God away from the world.
(c) A tearful reunion of the two of them.
(d) To not have children.

8. What matters when looking at the past?
(a) That order is seen to prevail.
(b) What curio you are holding.
(c) Nothing.
(d) What you want to see.

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

10. When the pastor and Jean's mother try to set up another exorcism, what does Jean say?
(a) They are the ones with the problem.
(b) She doubts it will work.
(c) She is leaving the church.
(d) She does not have a demon.

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

12. What is it like for Jean when Melanie visits and kisses her goodbye?
(a) She is overwhelmed with longing.
(b) She is repulsed by the thought.
(c) She feels nothing.
(d) She feels close to God.

13. Which of the following best describes the attitude of Jean's mother when Jean comes back for a visit?
(a) So casual Jean wonders if she realized she had been gone.
(b) Happy to see her.
(c) Irate and vindictive.
(d) Superior and distant.

14. What does Jean say people do with the past when it gets too difficult?
(a) Write about it.
(b) Define it as truth.
(c) Study it.
(d) Dispose of it.

15. Which of the following best characterizes a belief held by Jean's mother?
(a) Everyone made themself and people what they wanted.
(b) Everyone had a choice to be saved or fall to the devil.
(c) All of the above.
(d) Jean's sexuality was a wilfull act to sell her soul.

Short Answer Questions

1. What was Jean's relationship to Katy?

2. Where does Winnet meet the sorcerer?

3. How does Jean characterize a story heard from various perspectives?

4. What does Jean's mother call Jean's romantic love for another woman?

5. Who talks to Jean and supports her when everyone else was accusing her?

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