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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the moral of the parable of the sensitive princess?
(a) None of the above.
(b) Your family knows best.
(c) God's love conquers all.
(d) Love is never misguided.

2. How does Melanie end up coming to a church service at Jean's church?
(a) She wanders in by coincidence.
(b) Jean asks her to come over a baked potato.
(c) She is looking for Jean.
(d) Her mother is a friend of Elsies and takes her.

3. What is Jean doing when Pastor Finch finds her in the Sunday School Room?
(a) Coloring a mustache on Mary.
(b) Feeding Daniel to the lions in fuzzy felt.
(c) Praying.
(d) Making a manger scene in fuzzy felt.

4. How does the Society for the Lost fare under the direction of Jean's mother?
(a) It is slowly becoming more and more radical.
(b) It doubled in membership.
(c) There are fewer converts every year.
(d) She launched Pastor Spratt to fame.

5. What is Elsie's hobby?
(a) Guitar.
(b) Translating the bible.
(c) Missionary work.
(d) Numerology.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Jean's mother refer to their neighbors?

2. How can Sundays at the house where Jean grew up best be described?

3. What is Pastor Finch's sermon about the first day Melanie is in the church?

4. What story does the telling of Jean's own beginnings parallel?

5. What is the moral of the story of the prince and the woman?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does the prince write about perfection?

2. Describe Jean's mother.

3. What happens when Jean tries to tell her mother that she is going deaf?

4. Why don't Melanie and Jean think that what they share is what the pastor labels as "unnatural passion"?

5. In an attempt to fit in at school, what does Jean change about her art projects? How does that go?

6. Who does Jean eventually get a Saturday job from? What does she do?

7. Why does Jean's mother tell Jean the story of her and Pierre? What does she hope to accomplish?

8. Who invites Jean to go to the seaside? What happens and why does her mother not let her?

9. Who is Elsie? Describe her.

10. Explain why this statement is relevant to Jean's predicament at school: "What constitutes a problem is not the thing, or the environment where we find the thing, but the conjunction of the two."

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