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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 confesses her own affair with another woman.
(b) She tells Jean they will always be family no matter what she does.
(c) She breaks every plate in the house and calls the pastor.
(d) She demands Jean leave immediately for missionary school.

2. Who tries to help Jean after she is accused by the pastor?
(a) Jean's father.
(b) Mrs. Jewsbury.
(c) Jean's mother.
(d) Melanie.

3. What happens to Winnet at the sorcerer's castle?
(a) She realizes she was born for this life.
(b) She grows very powerful.
(c) She learns the sorcerer is not evil.
(d) She forgot who she was and how she came to be there.

4. What does Jean say people do with the past when it gets too difficult?
(a) Study it.
(b) Write about it.
(c) Dispose of it.
(d) Define it as truth.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What do Jean and Mrs. Jewsbury do after Jean is accused at church?

2. What was the Awful Occasion?

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

4. What does Jean say of the collector of curios?

5. What does Jean compare history to?

Short Essay Questions

1. What happens when Jean finally returns home after being accused by the pastor in church?

2. How does Winnet end up living with the sorcerer and believing she is his daughter?

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

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

5. What happens at Elsie's funeral?

6. What happens when Jean returns home for a visit?

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

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

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

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

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