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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 about things that are dead?
(a) There is a certain seductiveness about them.
(b) All of the above.
(c) They don't have the tiresome messiness of live things.
(d) They have all the admirable qualities of life.

2. How is this fifth chapter of ORANGES ARE NOT THE ONLY FRUIT best characterized?
(a) Cautionary and paranoid.
(b) Simple and straightforward.
(c) Spiritual and Godly.
(d) Symbolic and metaphorical.

3. What must Winnet do to reach the beautiful city?
(a) All the above.
(b) Leave everything she knows.
(c) Learn the ways of boat builders.
(d) Push her boat out alone into an immense sea she was afraid of.

4. What was the Awful Occasion?
(a) When Jean first realized she was involved in "unnatural passions".
(b) The time Jean's parents nearly separated.
(c) The day Melanie left Jean.
(d) The time Jean's real mother came to claim her.

5. Who is the boy Winnet makes friends with?
(a) Another sorcerer.
(b) The sorcerer's other apprentice.
(c) A stranger from another land.
(d) A boy from the village.

Short Answer Questions

1. Which of the following best characterizes the way Jean sees the past?

2. What do Jean's mother and the pastor argue about?

3. According to Jean, what cannot be found?

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

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

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. What happens at Elsie's funeral?

4. Who is Katy? What is her relationship to Jean?

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

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

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

8. What is the nature of stories and history and how does she describe them?

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

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

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