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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 is it like for Jean when Melanie visits and kisses her goodbye?

2. How much does Jean tell her mother about Melanie?

3. What does Jean say of the collector of curios?

4. What was Jean's relationship to Katy?

5. What must explorers bring back?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does Winnet end up living with the sorcerer and believing she is his daughter?

2. How and when are Melanie and Jean ousted to the church? What happens?

3. What is the point the author makes using the pilgrim fathers in her chapter entitled Deuteronomy?

4. In what ways might the chapter entitled Deuteronomy apply to Jean's life?

5. What happens at Elsie's funeral?

6. What happens that makes the sorcerer cast Winnet out?

7. What does Jean tell the pastor and elders of her church when they return after locking her up? Is she sincere?

8. What makes Jean's mother aware of what is happening between Jean and Melanie?

9. Who is Katy? What is her relationship to Jean?

10. Who is a friend to Jean after she is exposed for loving women for the second time? What does she do to help?

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

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?

Essay Topic 3

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?

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