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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Jean's mother tell Jean about her experience with Pierre?
(a) It was the only time she felt love.
(b) She learned men are not to be trusted.
(c) What she thought was love ended up being an ulcer.
(d) She nearly succombed to a life of sin.

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

3. Why does Pastor Finch carry a First Aid kit in his van?
(a) In case the demon combusted somebody.
(b) His revivals are so animated he usually needs it.
(c) Tubas are dangerous.
(d) He felt responsible for the young choir members.

4. What condition does Jean's mother insist on to let Jean go to the fair once a year?
(a) That she try and convert the gypsies.
(b) That she write a report afterwards on evils of the fair.
(c) That she will bring back black peas from the gypsies.
(d) That she confess and cleanse herself the next day.

5. What was the hardest part for Jean of her temporary deafness?
(a) Her mother's smothering protective attitude.
(b) Thinking she disliked a state of rapture.
(c) Realizing the church was sometimes confused.
(d) Being cut off from everyone.

6. What gift does Elsie give Jean?
(a) A pillow with inspirational sayings on it.
(b) A flute.
(c) Three mice in a box painted like "the fiery furnace".
(d) A book about independent thinking.

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

8. How does Jean get along with the other kids at school?
(a) Her wit and fearlessness make her an instant hit with the other kids.
(b) She makes friends with another misfit, but no one else.
(c) She is an outcast and doesn't make any friends.
(d) The teachers like her but the kids don't.

9. What does the headmistress of the school accuse Jean of?
(a) Intentionally causing trouble.
(b) Disobeying teachers.
(c) Acting too good for everybody.
(d) Terrorizing other children by giving them nightmares about Hell.

10. Where does Jean's mom get her a new mac?
(a) The butcher's lost and found.
(b) A booth in the market.
(c) Marks & Spencer.
(d) A seconds shop.

11. What does the palm reader tell Jean one year at the fair?
(a) That she does not know her real self.
(b) That she is destined for great works.
(c) That she will never marry.
(d) That she is a child of God.

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

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

14. What is Elsie's hobby?
(a) Guitar.
(b) Numerology.
(c) Translating the bible.
(d) Missionary work.

15. What does Melanie do at the end of her fist service at Jean's church?
(a) Throws up.
(b) Invites Jean out to lunch.
(c) Asks for forgiveness in front of the whole congregation.
(d) Reluctantly agrees to come to another.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What is the moral of the parable of the sensitive princess?

3. What does the woman at the vermin shop give Jean?

4. What stories does Jean's mother tell her as they sit on the memorial stone at the top of the hill?

5. What does Jean think she hears coming from the neighbor's house?

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