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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's visitor tell her while she is locked in?
(a) Demons aren't evil, just different.
(b) She shouldn't believe everything she reads in the Bible.
(c) All of the above.
(d) If she ignores this issue, she'll end up in pieces.

2. What are Jean and Melanie accused of during the sermon?
(a) Not loving God.
(b) All of the above.
(c) Loving each other with a love reserved for man and wife.
(d) Falling under Satan's spell.

3. What matters when looking at the past?
(a) Nothing.
(b) What curio you are holding.
(c) That order is seen to prevail.
(d) What you want to see.

4. What must explorers bring back?
(a) A new history to write.
(b) A memory and a story.
(c) Potatoes or tobacco or gold.
(d) A new way to see history.

5. What does Jean compare history to?
(a) Our own personal past.
(b) A religious text.
(c) Fairy tales.
(d) A string full of knots.

Short Answer Questions

1. What do people do when they tell stories?

2. According to the chapter, Deuteronomy, what is time?

3. Who tries to help Jean after she is accused by the pastor?

4. What does the pastor identify as the root cause of the problem with Jean?

5. What is it like for Jean when Melanie visits and kisses her goodbye?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Jean tell the church to protect Katy?

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

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

4. Describe what happened when Jean's biological mother returned to claim her.

5. What must Winnet do to reach the beautiful city? What is it like when she reaches it?

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

7. What happens at Elsie's funeral?

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

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

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

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