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

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

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

4. What do people do when they tell stories?
(a) Spread the truth.
(b) Bring perspective.
(c) Make them what they will.
(d) Convince themselves.

5. Who does Jean say history is?
(a) A fickle lover.
(b) Picasso.
(c) You image in a mirror.
(d) St. George.

Short Answer Questions

1. What happens to Winnet at the sorcerer's castle?

2. According to Jean, what cannot be found?

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

4. What do people do that Jean thinks is folly?

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

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

6. What does Jean tell the pastor and elders of her church when they return after locking her up? Is she sincere?

7. What do the pastor and Jean's mother propose after discovering Jean's continued interest in women, and what is Jean's response?

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

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

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

(see the answer keys)

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