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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. According to Jean, what do people often use history for?
(a) To keep busy looking at something other than the present.
(b) A way of denying the past.
(c) A way of defining self.
(d) To not feel lost.

2. When is the last time Jean sees Elsie?
(a) Elsie comes out to her ice cream truck to tell Jean she' dying.
(b) Jean spends the night at her side in the funeral parlor.
(c) The church holds a wake for Elsie and Jean attends.
(d) Jean visits her in the hospital early in the morning so she won't run into anyone.

3. What does the sorcerer want of Winnet?
(a) To be his apprentice.
(b) To be his daughter.
(c) To convince the townspeople to trust him.
(d) To carry a message for him.

4. Where does Jean go after being accused at church?
(a) To Mrs. Jewsbury's.
(b) Straight home.
(c) To the market where she met Melanie.
(d) To the top of the hill.

5. Where does Winnet meet the sorcerer?
(a) Traveling through a forest.
(b) In a town festival.
(c) Near the river behind her home.
(d) He appears to her in dreams.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Jean envision her mother wishing for as she waits in her room?

2. What are the names of the sorcerer's ravens?

3. What does she advise you to do if you want to keep your own teeth?

4. What is Jean's mother's response to the news about Jean's sexuality?

5. What does the chapter titled Judges open with?

Short Essay Questions

1. What happens at Elsie's funeral?

2. Describe the food metaphor the author uses to describe hearing about an event from various sources.

3. What does the author say about the curious and the collector of curios?

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

5. 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?

6. Who is Katy? What is her relationship to Jean?

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

8. Who is a friend to Jean after she is exposed for loving women for the second time? What does she do to help?

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

10. What do the pastor and Jean's mother propose after discovering Jean's continued interest in women, and what is Jean's response?

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