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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 say about the past?

2. What opinion of many has history changed since the Pilgrim fathers first set sail?

3. What does Jean's visitor tell her while she is locked in?

4. In general terms, what is the chapter Deuteronomy about?

5. What advice is Jean trying to give us at the end of the chapter titled Deuteronomy?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

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

7. What happens at Elsie's funeral?

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

9. In what ways might the chapter entitled Deuteronomy apply to Jean's life?

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

The author uses parables throughout her story in ORANGES ARE NOT THE ONLY FRUIT. Write a parable for your own story.

Part 1. Give us the general situation of a time in your life when you were going through something you would like to represent through a story.

Part 2. Create and tell the story that will shed understanding or light onto your situation for the reader.

Part 3. Explain your story and how it relates to your situation in life. Do you think your story was effective in adding depth or meaning to the description of your situation?

Essay Topic 2

Jean's mother, whose name we never actually learn, is one of the most overwhelming characters of the book and it is her hands more than any that shape Jean's childhood.

Part 1. Describe Jean's mother.

Part 2. Jean described her mother as "Old Testament." What does she mean?

Part 3. What hints are we given into Jean's mother's past that indicate she might not be entirely as she seems. What hints are we given and what can we guess?

Essay Topic 3

One of the five fundamental components of story telling discussed is that of plot.

Part 1. What is plot? How can it be manipulated?

Part 2 What are the elements of plot? Do they usually follow a pattern?

Part 3. What role does conflict play in plot? What are the four common types of conflict?

Part 4. What is the central conflict that drives the plot?

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