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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 Jean's mother call Jean's romantic love for another woman?

2. What is Jean's role in the church after she is accused and repents?

3. How intent is Jean on becoming a missionary?

4. What does Jean say about things that are dead?

5. What does she advise you to do if you want to keep your own teeth?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

7. What happens when Jean finally returns home after being accused by the pastor in church?

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

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

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

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 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

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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