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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

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

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

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

6. 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.

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

8. What instructions does the pastor give Jean after she refuses to repent?
(a) To leave the community.
(b) To recognize the devil.
(c) To ask God for guidance.
(d) To go home and wait for them.

9. What are Jean and Melanie accused of during the sermon?
(a) Falling under Satan's spell.
(b) Loving each other with a love reserved for man and wife.
(c) Not loving God.
(d) All of the above.

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

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

12. What does Jean say about the curious?
(a) They are the engine of the world.
(b) They look outward to not look in.
(c) They are blind.
(d) They are always in some danger.

13. Who tries to help Jean after she is accused by the pastor?
(a) Mrs. Jewsbury.
(b) Jean's father.
(c) Jean's mother.
(d) Melanie.

14. What does the sorcerer do to the boy Winnet befriends?
(a) Blames him for spoiling Winnet and casts him out.
(b) Challenges him to a duel.
(c) Ridicules him in front of Winnet.
(d) Makes him a stronger sorcerer than Winnet.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Who does Jean say history is?

2. What does Jean feel when she looks at a history book?

3. How much does Jean tell her mother about Melanie?

4. What do people do that Jean thinks is folly?

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

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