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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 Judy learn she is not allowed to read?

2. What term does Judy give to herself?

3. How many rooms are in the LDS church?

4. What threatens the crops of the first LDS members?

5. How do the women make Judy feel pressured?

Short Essay Questions

1. How do Jim and Judy handle the proposition that they be baptized?

2. What part of her Mormon work does Judy hate the most? Why?

3. What surprises Judy about the first church service that she attends?

4. How does her new life as a Mormon woman make Judy feel?

5. What is Jim and Judy's impression of the Mormon church?

6. Why does Judy like the Sunday school material presented by the Mormon Church?

7. What attributes of the Jackson family draw Jim and Judy to their way of belief?

8. Briefly explain Judy's experience with the church lady in Fayettteville.

9. Why is there a monument containing gulls on the Mormon temple?

10. What do Jim and Judy think of the story of the inception of the Mormon church?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Research the requirements for a group to be considered a cult. Based on these guidelines do you believe that it was proper for Judy to refer Mormonism as a cult? Use specific examples from the book to support your answer.

Essay Topic 2

Consider the reactions of Jim and Judy's Mormon friends as well as church clergy when they tell they are leaving the church. What do these reactions have in common? Is there anything different or unusual about any of the reactions?

Essay Topic 3

Describe the role of Nell in the novel.

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