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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 characterize uncertainty to her?

2. What happens at Elsie's funeral?

3. What does Jean find out one day driving the ice cream truck?

4. Where does Jean dream she is when she falls asleep?

5. Which of the following best characterizes a belief held by Jean's mother?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. Describe how the author describes Pol Pot in relation to history in the chapter entitled Deuteronomy.

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

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

6. What do the pastor and Jean's mother propose after discovering Jean's continued interest in women, and what is Jean's response?

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

8. 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?

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

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

In the novel Jean spends the better part of a chapter trying to understand men.

Part 1. Describe the techniques the young Jean employs to get information.

Part 2. What information does Jean gather, and what surmises does she make from it?

Part 3. Jean was clearly suffering from a lack of quality, clear information given to her. What role should her parents and/or teachers and pastors have played in her understanding, or is such confusion a natural part of the process?

Essay Topic 2

Choose one of the Biblical books that a chapter of ORANGES ARE NOT THE ONLY FRUIT was named after; so Genesis, Exodus, Leviticus, Numbers, Deuteronomy, Joshua, Judges, or Ruth.

Part 1. Describe the Biblical book, naming the most common references from it.

Part 2. Summarize the activity that happens in the chapter ORANGES ARE NOT THE ONLY FRUIT named after that Biblical book.

Part 3. Relate the chapter in the novel to the biblical chapter. What parallels is the book making? What references? How does the biblical chapter add depth to the book?

Essay Topic 3

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.

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