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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 was in the package that came from Wigan?

2. What does Jean have to remind her not to cut corners?

3. Why is the paper shop "forbidden" and its owners talked about?

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

5. What does the prince in the story want to find?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does the prince write about perfection?

2. What are some things Jean's mother did for the Society for the Lost? Was she effective?

3. Describe the dream Jean has again and again about marriage.

4. What happens the first time Melanie goes to Jean's church?

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. 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 happened in sewing class when the class worked on cross stitching projects?

8. Describe Jean's mother.

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

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

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 2

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 3

At one point Jean describes her mother as "Old Testament." What do we mean by that phrase?

Part 1. Describe the Biblical Old Testament.

Part 2. Describe the Biblical New Testament, comparing and contrasting it to the Old Testament.

Part 3. Give some examples and explanations about things that might be referred to as Old Testament.

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