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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 is Jean's mother's response to the news about Jean's sexuality?
(a) She demands Jean leave immediately for missionary school.
(b) She confesses her own affair with another woman.
(c) She breaks every plate in the house and calls the pastor.
(d) She tells Jean they will always be family no matter what she does.

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

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

4. What does Jean say about the curious?
(a) They are always in some danger.
(b) They are blind.
(c) They are the engine of the world.
(d) They look outward to not look in.

5. What was Jean's relationship to Katy?
(a) Jean had a crush on Katy for years but denied it to herself and everyone.
(b) They were close friends in the church.
(c) Katy was Jean's proof that she was over women.
(d) Katy was her most uncomplicated love affair.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. How does Jean characterize a story heard from various perspectives?

3. According to Jean, what do people often use history for?

4. When the pastor and Jean's mother try to set up another exorcism, what does Jean say?

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

Short Essay Questions

1. What happens at Elsie's funeral?

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

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

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

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

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

7. Describe the nature and style of the chapter entitled Deuteronomy.

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

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

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

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