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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 Jean's response when her mother informs her that if Jean doesn't go to school she'll go to jail?
(a) School and jail are similar, so why does matter who goes?
(b) She would never ask that of her mother.
(c) None of the above.
(d) St. Paul was always going to prison and he always got out.

2. What does Mrs Arkwright do for Jean in the market?
(a) Lends Jean her cart to haul apples.
(b) She lets Jean put her orange box in her stall out of the rain.
(c) She takes some of pamplets to put up herself.
(d) She gives Jean some food.

3. What does Jean's mother always say about oranges?
(a) They are not the only fruit.
(b) They are sent from God.
(c) They keep you from getting sick.
(d) They are the only fruit.

4. How does Jean's mother refer to their neighbors?
(a) Next Door.
(b) That poor family.
(c) The Johnsons.
(d) John and Meg's family.

5. What kind of effort does Jean put into fitting in at school?
(a) She doesn't care and can't wait to leave.
(b) Jean tries to dress fashionably to be accepted.
(c) She establishes good relationships with the teachers but not the kids.
(d) She tries very hard but can't get the hang of it.

Short Answer Questions

1. What idea from the sermon she heard at the special conference had the biggest impact on Jean?

2. What stories does Jean's mother tell her as they sit on the memorial stone at the top of the hill?

3. Who is the faithful companion to the prince?

4. How does Jean pass the time she spends in the children's ward at the hospital?

5. Who does the protagonist Jean live with?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does Jean get to go the fair once a year? What happens to her there one year with a palm reader?

2. In the beginning of the chapter, Leviticus, what do Jean and her mother hear coming from Next Door? What do they do about it?

3. What is Jean's experience with the visiting pastor, Pastor Finch?

4. What does the perfect girl the prince finds tell him?

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

6. Describe how the church community misunderstood Jean's deafness. What did they say about her?

7. Describe a typical Sunday in Jean's home.

8. What happens the first time Melanie goes to Jean's church?

9. What is the story of the sensitive princess?

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

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