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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 does Jean meet during a tent mission in Blackpool?

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

3. How does Jean feel about her church before she is accused in the sermon?

4. What does Jean envision her mother wishing for as she waits in her room?

5. What happens to Winnet after she leaves the sorcerer?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

5. What is it like for Winnet living in the village? Why does she decide she has to leave?

6. What must Winnet do to reach the beautiful city? What is it like when she reaches it?

7. 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?

8. What is the nature of stories and history and how does she describe them?

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

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

At the end of one of the chapters in the book, the author includes a brief description of a historical moment of the storming of the Winter Palace. It adds depth to her story because although she shows us just a moment of relative inaction, the reader knows the outcome of the historical moment and so gets a hint of a possible outcome for her story.

Part 1. What was the storming of the Winter Palace that she referred to, and how did it relate to her story?

Part 2. Choose a pivotal moment in your own life that you can somehow equate with a moment in history. What was the moment in your life? What historical moment?

Part 3. Analyze how the moment of your own life is comparable to that moment in history, and what does representing that moment in history bring to your own story?

Essay Topic 2

None of the references to famous people, stories, or other things are in the novel by accident. The author brings them up specifically for their relevance to some aspect of her story. Choose one of the many popular or Biblical references in the novel to explain.

Part 1. What reference is made? When in the story is it made?

Part 2. Describe the reference thoroughly, making sure to include the parts that relate to ORANGES ARE NOT THE ONLY FRUIT.

Part 3. How does this reference relate back to Jean's story? What relevance does it have? What insight or depth does it bring with it that was missing?

Essay Topic 3

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?

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