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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Jean ask for when her mother takes her to town to buy mince?
(a) A new mac.
(b) A fish.
(c) To take the dog.
(d) All of the above.

2. What is Melanie doing when Jean first sees her?
(a) Shoplifting.
(b) Shopping with her family.
(c) Cleaning fish.
(d) Waitressing.

3. What does the woman at the vermin shop give Jean?
(a) Some oranges.
(b) A fever.
(c) Some empty tins.
(d) The creeps.

4. What is Pastor Finch's sermon about the first day Melanie is in the church?
(a) Turning the other cheek.
(b) The unbounded love of God.
(c) Unnatural passions.
(d) Forgiveness.

5. Who spends the most time with Jean in the hospital?
(a) Jean's mother, who even sleeps there.
(b) Elsie.
(c) Mrs Jewsbury.
(d) Jean's father, sent by her mother.

6. How does Melanie end up coming to a church service at Jean's church?
(a) Her mother is a friend of Elsies and takes her.
(b) Jean asks her to come over a baked potato.
(c) She wanders in by coincidence.
(d) She is looking for Jean.

7. How can Sundays at the house where Jean grew up best be described?
(a) Family time.
(b) A day of rest to think of the Lord.
(c) A day for a feast.
(d) Vigorous in worship.

8. What does Mrs Arkwright do for Jean in the market?
(a) She lets Jean put her orange box in her stall out of the rain.
(b) She takes some of pamplets to put up herself.
(c) Lends Jean her cart to haul apples.
(d) She gives Jean some food.

9. What kind of effort does Jean put into fitting in at school?
(a) She doesn't care and can't wait to leave.
(b) She establishes good relationships with the teachers but not the kids.
(c) She tries very hard but can't get the hang of it.
(d) Jean tries to dress fashionably to be accepted.

10. How does Jean pass the time she spends in the children's ward at the hospital?
(a) Making igloos out of her orange peels.
(b) Looking at sick people.
(c) Contemplating the Lord.
(d) Talking with other kids.

11. What does Jean's mother call the public school?
(a) The corrupter of children.
(b) The devils work.
(c) The mill of brainwashing.
(d) The breeding ground.

12. What is the moral of the parable of the sensitive princess?
(a) Love is never misguided.
(b) Your family knows best.
(c) None of the above.
(d) God's love conquers all.

13. What reason does Jean have for visiting Melanie every Monday?
(a) Bringing new tracts for distribution.
(b) For Bible study as her counselor.
(c) Delivering food from Tricketts.
(d) Their mothers go downtown together.

14. What does Jean think she hears coming from the neighbor's house?
(a) Cries for help.
(b) A puppy.
(c) The voice of God.
(d) Pastor Spratt.

15. What schedule do Jean's parents keep at home?
(a) They all go to bed promptly at eight.
(b) Her father creeps downstairs at night to watch tv.
(c) Her mother goes to bed at four a.m., her father gets up an hour later.
(d) They change their schedule to match the radio broadcasts her mother listens to.

Short Answer Questions

1. What important notion does Elsie impart to Jean?

2. What does Jean help do one year when they go to Morecambe?

3. What story does the telling of Jean's own beginnings parallel?

4. Which of the following is in the book that the prince writes?

5. What does Jean realize when her sampler does not win in a school contest?

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