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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. How does Jean pass the time she spends in the children's ward at the hospital?

2. In Jean's dream of getting married, who is her husband?

3. Why was Jean's mother suspicious of a package that came from Wigan?

4. How does Jean get along with the other kids at school?

5. Who does the protagonist Jean live with?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does the perfect girl the prince finds tell him?

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

3. Describe how the church community misunderstood Jean's deafness. What did they say about her?

4. What does the prince write about perfection?

5. When she is young and still trying to understand men and marriage, what is Jean's general opinion of men? Where does it come from?

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

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

8. How does her mother tell the story of Jean's adoption?

9. What is the story of the sensitive princess?

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

An entire chapter of the novel is dedicated to discussion of stories and history in general being subjective.

Part 1. What is meant by subjectivity in history?

Part 2. How subjective is history? Are there any true things to be found and proven?

Part 3. How do people best cope with the subjective nature of looking into the past?

Essay Topic 2

At the end of one of the chapters in the book, the author includes a brief description of a historical moment of the storming of the Winter Palace. It adds depth to her story because although she shows us just a moment of relative inaction, the reader knows the outcome of the historical moment and so gets a hint of a possible outcome for her story.

Part 1. What was the storming of the Winter Palace that she referred to, and how did it relate to her story?

Part 2. Choose a pivotal moment in your own life that you can somehow equate with a moment in history. What was the moment in your life? What historical moment?

Part 3. Analyze how the moment of your own life is comparable to that moment in history, and what does representing that moment in history bring to your own story?

Essay Topic 3

Choose one of the Biblical books that a chapter of ORANGES ARE NOT THE ONLY FRUIT was named after; so Genesis, Exodus, Leviticus, Numbers, Deuteronomy, Joshua, Judges, or Ruth.

Part 1. Describe the Biblical book, naming the most common references from it.

Part 2. Summarize the activity that happens in the chapter ORANGES ARE NOT THE ONLY FRUIT named after that Biblical book.

Part 3. Relate the chapter in the novel to the biblical chapter. What parallels is the book making? What references? How does the biblical chapter add depth to the book?

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