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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 does Jean ask for when her mother takes her to town to buy mince?
(a) All of the above.
(b) A new mac.
(c) A fish.
(d) To take the dog.

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

3. What does the prince in the story want to find?
(a) The Truth.
(b) Perfection.
(c) Happiness.
(d) A wife.

4. What what Jean's mother's response when Jean told her about the marriage dream she had?
(a) She said she had had similiar dreams when she was young.
(b) She offered to take Jean to a dream analyst.
(c) She reassured her that her own marriage would be nothing like that.
(d) She said it was because Jean ate sardines the night before.

5. What function does Jean's mother's friend make wreaths for?
(a) Parades.
(b) Weddings.
(c) Christmas.
(d) Funerals.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Jean's mother always say about oranges?

2. What does Jean sew onto her sampler in sewing class?

3. What does Jean's mother do when she identifies the sound coming from next door?

4. How does the Society for the Lost fare under the direction of Jean's mother?

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

Short Essay Questions

1. What does the prince write about perfection?

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

3. How does Jean make friends with Melanie?

4. When the Society has a special conference in Jean's town, what does Jean's mother make her do? Who does Jean meet there?

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

6. How is Jean's deafness discovered?

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

8. When she is young and still trying to understand men and marriage, what is Jean's general opinion of men? Where does it come from?

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

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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