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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 schedule do Jean's parents keep at home?
(a) They change their schedule to match the radio broadcasts her mother listens to.
(b) Her father creeps downstairs at night to watch tv.
(c) They all go to bed promptly at eight.
(d) Her mother goes to bed at four a.m., her father gets up an hour later.

2. What reasons are given when adults discuss why Jean doesn't answer anyone?
(a) All of the above.
(b) Jean is in a state of rapture.
(c) Jean is seven, which is a holy number, and strange things happen in sevens.
(d) The Lord works in mysterious ways.

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

4. What was in the package that came from Wigan?
(a) Jean's biological parents' information.
(b) Tickets to a cruise.
(c) A letter from Pierre.
(d) None of the above.

5. What does Jean worry about before her operation?
(a) Dying from the anesthetia.
(b) Not getting her hearing back.
(c) If the nurse will throw away her orange peel.
(d) All of the above.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who finally discovers that Jean is deaf?

2. What does Jean's mother call the public school?

3. Which of the following is something Jean's mother routinely is likely to say first thing to her on Sundays?

4. Why is the paper shop "forbidden" and its owners talked about?

5. What happens when the pastor talks about how full of spirit Jean is while he is preaching?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

5. What is the story of the sensitive princess?

6. How is Jean's deafness discovered?

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. 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 the dream Jean has again and again about marriage.

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

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