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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. Who talks to Jean and supports her when everyone else was accusing her?

2. Who does Jean find when she returns home after being accused at church?

3. Who is the boy Winnet makes friends with?

4. What does Jean tell the church?

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

Short Essay Questions

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

2. How was Katy and Jean's relationship discovered by the members of the church?

3. While Jean is locked up in her mother's house after being accused of loving Melanie at church, who does Jean talk to and what do they say?

4. Describe the food metaphor the author uses to describe hearing about an event from various sources.

5. What is Jean's mother's reaction to the discovery of Jean's continued interest in women?

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

7. According to the chapter Deuteronomy what are some ways that people change or deny the past?

8. What do the pastor and her mother pinpoint as the culprit for Jean's sexuality?

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

10. What does the author say about the curious and the collector of curios?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

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?

Essay Topic 2

One of the five fundamental components of fiction discussed in class is Theme.

Part 1. What are themes?

Part 2. How is theme different for expository essays versus story telling?

Part 3. What are some of the themes from the novel? How are they developed?

Essay Topic 3

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?

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