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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 the sorcerer do to the boy Winnet befriends?
(a) Makes him a stronger sorcerer than Winnet.
(b) Challenges him to a duel.
(c) Blames him for spoiling Winnet and casts him out.
(d) Ridicules him in front of Winnet.

2. What does Jean feel when she looks at a history book?
(a) She is curious about the new story.
(b) She is repulsed by the pretention.
(c) None of the above.
(d) She is astonished at the imaginative effort.

3. Where does Jean dream she is when she falls asleep?
(a) With everyone who can't make the ultimate decision.
(b) In the city of Lost Chances.
(c) All of the above.
(d) In a bookshop.

4. How are Jean and Katy discovered?
(a) They forgot to lock their door and someone looked in while they were in bed.
(b) Jean's mom finds their letters.
(c) Jean announces their love to the whole congregation.
(d) Katy confesses everything to the pastor.

5. What does the sorcerer do for Winnet to help her feel safe dining with him?
(a) He tells her his name.
(b) He gives her the source of his power.
(c) He tells her details of her own life.
(d) He draws a chalk circle with a little gap in it for her to step into and then close.

Short Answer Questions

1. What advice is Jean trying to give us at the end of the chapter titled Deuteronomy?

2. What does the sorcerer want of Winnet?

3. What does Jean's mother do after Jean has repented?

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

5. What is the meeting of the Sisterhood like when Jean shows up after her second affair?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What makes Jean's mother aware of what is happening between Jean and Melanie?

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

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

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

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

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

8. 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?

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

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

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