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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 does Winnet do for the boy?

2. Who does Jean say history is?

3. Which of the following best characterizes the way Jean sees the past?

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

2. Where does Melanie go, and with whom, after being accused at church? What happens?

3. What does Jean tell the church to protect Katy?

4. Describe what happened when Jean's biological mother returned to claim her.

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

6. 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?

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

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

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

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

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 2

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 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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