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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. Why does Pastor Finch carry a First Aid kit in his van?

2. Who is Pastor Spratt?

3. How does pastor Finch, the visiting pastor, make Jean feel?

4. What does Jean's mother identify the sound coming from next door as?

5. What does Jean's mother tell Jean about her experience with Pierre?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. Who is the prince in the story, and what does he believe he wants?

3. Describe the incident of the mac and its replacement.

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

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

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

7. What is Jean's experience with the visiting pastor, Pastor Finch?

8. 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?

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

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

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 2

Jean's first theological disagreement with her church was on the definition of perfection.

Part 1. How did the pastor at Jean's church define perfection? According to him, is it achievable? How and when?

Part 2. Jean expresses her own views on the definition through a story. Summarize the story she tells and explain how it portrays Jean's views on perfection. What are Jean's views on perfection?

Part 3. Which side of this discussion do you agree with? Give reasons and examples to support your position.

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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