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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 allows Jean to spend many nights with Melanie?

2. What does the chapter titled Judges open with?

3. Who does Jean say history is?

4. How are Jean and Katy discovered?

5. What does Jean say was a big problem looking at history after the second world war?

Short Essay Questions

1. Describe the nature and style of the chapter entitled Deuteronomy.

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

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

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

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

6. What happens when Jean returns home for a visit?

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

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

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

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

The author frequently uses stories, often ones that sound like parables, to make her points in her story.

Part 1. Give some examples of some stories she tells to enhance an aspect of her story.

Part 2. Analyze the story she tells in reference to her story. What does it mean? What is she adding to her narrative?

Part 3. In your mind, how effective is this tool in her story telling?

Essay Topic 2

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 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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