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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. How does pastor Finch, the visiting pastor, make Jean feel?
(a) Like a prodigal child.
(b) Scared and uneasy.
(c) Possessed by a demon.
(d) Devoted.

2. What job does Jean end up getting from the wreath-making friend?
(a) Making wedding bouquets.
(b) Making wire forms for wreaths.
(c) Getting the dead ready for burial at an undertaker's.
(d) Growing carnations.

3. What does the palm reader tell Jean one year at the fair?
(a) That she is a child of God.
(b) That she does not know her real self.
(c) That she will never marry.
(d) That she is destined for great works.

4. Why is the paper shop "forbidden" and its owners talked about?
(a) All of the above.
(b) The owners had been members of the church but left.
(c) The owners are two women who share a bed.
(d) They held seances in the basement.

5. What stories does Jean's mother tell her as they sit on the memorial stone at the top of the hill?
(a) Biblical stories.
(b) Stories of people converted to Christianity or those that refused salvation.
(c) Fairy tales.
(d) Stories of her youth.

Short Answer Questions

1. Which of the following best characterizes the way Jean's mother sees the world?

2. What is Jean unsure how to do?

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

4. What is the moral of the parable of the sensitive princess?

5. Why was Jean's mother suspicious of a package that came from Wigan?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What kinds of stories does Jean's mother tell her while the walk on Sundays? Give some examples.

3. What does the headmistress call Jean into her office for? Why? What is Jean's response?

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

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

6. Describe the incident of the mac and its replacement.

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

8. What happened in sewing class when the class worked on cross stitching projects?

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

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

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