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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 are the names of the sorcerer's ravens?
(a) Faith, Hope, and Charity.
(b) Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego.
(c) Fate and Destiny.
(d) Each one was one of the seven deadly sins.

2. Which of the following best describes the attitude of Jean's mother when Jean comes back for a visit?
(a) Happy to see her.
(b) So casual Jean wonders if she realized she had been gone.
(c) Superior and distant.
(d) Irate and vindictive.

3. What does Jean envision her mother wishing for as she waits in her room?
(a) To not have children.
(b) Her and her room to go up in flames while the house remained untouched.
(c) A tearful reunion of the two of them.
(d) To be transported by God away from the world.

4. Why does Jean say her mother has always given her problems?
(a) She is enlightened and reactionary at the same time.
(b) She has her own agenda.
(c) She has faith above all else.
(d) She is hypocritical.

5. Which of the following is a belief held by Jean's mother?
(a) All of the above.
(b) Women have important missionary work.
(c) Jean's "demon" stemmed from her inability to realize the limitations of her sex.
(d) Preaching is a man's role and innappropriate for women.

Short Answer Questions

1. What allows Jean to spend many nights with Melanie?

2. Who talks to Jean and supports her when everyone else was accusing her?

3. What does Jean say about things that are dead?

4. Where does Jean dream she is when she falls asleep?

5. How much warning do Jean and Melanie have of what will happen at church when they are separated?

Short Essay Questions

1. What happens at Elsie's funeral?

2. What happens that makes the sorcerer cast Winnet out?

3. In what ways might the chapter entitled Deuteronomy apply to Jean's life?

4. What does Jean tell the pastor and elders of her church when they return after locking her up? Is she sincere?

5. Describe how the author describes Pol Pot in relation to history in the chapter entitled Deuteronomy.

6. What is the nature of stories and history and how does she describe them?

7. What do the pastor and her mother pinpoint as the culprit for Jean's sexuality?

8. While Jean is locked up in her mother's house after being accused of loving Melanie at church, who does Jean talk to and what do they say?

9. According to the chapter Deuteronomy what are some ways that people change or deny the past?

10. What is the point the author makes using the pilgrim fathers in her chapter entitled Deuteronomy?

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