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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 cures the sensitive princess in the story?
(a) Her family's love.
(b) God's love.
(c) Real responsibilities and service.
(d) A magic spell.

2. How can Sundays at the house where Jean grew up best be described?
(a) Family time.
(b) Vigorous in worship.
(c) A day for a feast.
(d) A day of rest to think of the Lord.

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

4. What do Jean and her mother do routinely on Sunday mornings?
(a) Cook an extravagant lunch.
(b) Enjoy a conversation over tea.
(c) Discuss how the Lord has blessed their lives.
(d) Take notes on the World Service radio program.

5. Which of the following is in the book that the prince writes?
(a) The need to produce a world of perfect beings.
(b) The corruption of opting for second best.
(c) An exhoration to single-mindedness.
(d) All of the above.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who invites Jean to go to the seaside?

2. In the story at the end of the chapter titled Leviticus, what is the girl like?

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

4. What is on the tablecloth Jean's family uses on Sundays?

5. In Jean's dream of getting married, who is her husband?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. Who is Elsie? Describe her.

3. How does her mother tell the story of Jean's adoption?

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

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

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

7. 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."

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

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

10. Who is the prince in the story, and what does he believe he wants?

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