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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 get along with the other kids at school?

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

3. Why don't Melanie and Jean think what they are doing is the "unnatural passions" they hear about?

4. How does Melanie end up coming to a church service at Jean's church?

5. What idea from the sermon she heard at the special conference had the biggest impact on Jean?

Short Essay Questions

1. Summarize the story of Jean's mother and Pierre.

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

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

4. What does the prince write about perfection?

5. Why don't Melanie and Jean think that what they share is what the pastor labels as "unnatural passion"?

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

7. How does Jean get to go the fair once a year? What happens to her there one year with a palm reader?

8. 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."

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

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

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

One of the five fundamental components of story telling discussed is that of plot.

Part 1. What is plot? How can it be manipulated?

Part 2 What are the elements of plot? Do they usually follow a pattern?

Part 3. What role does conflict play in plot? What are the four common types of conflict?

Part 4. What is the central conflict that drives the plot?

Essay Topic 3

The novel ORANGES ARE NOT THE ONLY FRUIT is the debut novel by Jeannette Winterson. Write an essay about the book and the author.

Part 1. When was the book published? How has it been received by the literary community?

Part 2. What type of story is this? What does the story itself tell us about the author?

Part 3. Who is Jeannette Winterson and what else has she done?

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