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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 say was a big problem looking at history after the second world war?
(a) Too many ingrediants.
(b) The need to generate new stories.
(c) Not a large enough bowl.
(d) Constipation.

2. What is Winnet's punishment from the sorcerer?
(a) She has to leave, or tend the goats if she stays.
(b) She has to watch the boy marry and raise a family with another girl.
(c) She is made to forget everyone she loves.
(d) She is turned into a raven.

3. Who talks to Jean and supports her when everyone else was accusing her?
(a) Mrs Arkwright.
(b) Jean's father.
(c) Elsie.
(d) Melanie.

4. What does Jean's mother do after Jean has repented?
(a) Tells her about her own affair with another woman.
(b) Takes a more personal interest in Jean's day to day life.
(c) Signs Jean up for missionary school.
(d) Burns all the cards and pictures that would remind Jean of Melanie.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. How is this fifth chapter of ORANGES ARE NOT THE ONLY FRUIT best characterized?

3. What does Jean say people do with the past when it gets too difficult?

4. How intent is Jean on becoming a missionary?

5. What does Jean feel when she looks at a history book?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. 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?

4. Where does Melanie go, and with whom, after being accused at church? What happens?

5. How was Katy and Jean's relationship discovered by the members of the church?

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

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

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

9. How and when are Melanie and Jean ousted to the church? What happens?

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

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