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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Jean discover when she reads the book JANE EYRE?

2. What is on the tablecloth Jean's family uses on Sundays?

3. What does Jean's mother have hung above her oven where she can see it often?

4. What does Jean's mother worry about?

5. What does Jean's mother see in a child when she decided she wanted one?

Short Essay Questions

1. Describe a typical Sunday in Jean's home.

2. Who invites Jean to go to the seaside? What happens and why does her mother not let her?

3. What happens when Jean tries to tell her mother that she is going deaf?

4. What does the headmistress call Jean into her office for? Why? What is Jean's response?

5. In an attempt to fit in at school, what does Jean change about her art projects? How does that go?

6. When the Society has a special conference in Jean's town, what does Jean's mother make her do? Who does Jean meet there?

7. What is the story of the sensitive princess?

8. Why does Jean's mother tell Jean the story of her and Pierre? What does she hope to accomplish?

9. Explain why this statement is relevant to Jean's predicament at school: "What constitutes a problem is not the thing, or the environment where we find the thing, but the conjunction of the two."

10. Who does Jean eventually get a Saturday job from? What does she do?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

The five fundamental components of fiction were introduced and discussed in a lecture.

Part 1. What are the five fundamental components?

Part 2. Give a description of each of the components and an example or two of how they might affect a story.

Part 3. Discuss the five fundamental components in ORANGES ARE NOT THE ONLY FRUIT. What techniques does the author use? How effectively does she use them?

Essay Topic 2

One of the five fundamental components of storytelling discussed is the element of style.

Part 1. What is the element of style?

Part 2. Give some examples of literature or other popular stories where style has been a major factor in the enjoyment of the story.

Part 3. Discuss the style used in the novel. How effective was it?

Essay Topic 3

The action of the novel happens in a community of Pentecostal Evangelists, and the conflict in the story is caused by their beliefs.

Part 1. Who are the Pentecostal Evangelists, and what do they believe in?

Part 2. Have they changed since the 1960s when this story took place?

Part 3. What would it be like to be raised in such a community?

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