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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What matters when looking at the past?
(a) What you want to see.
(b) That order is seen to prevail.
(c) What curio you are holding.
(d) Nothing.

2. What happens at Elsie's funeral?
(a) Jean tries to keep her presence unknown.
(b) All the above.
(c) The church group sees her at dessert and storms out.
(d) The man who runs the funeral home needs her help serving.

3. What does Jean's mother call Jean's romantic love for another woman?
(a) Intentionally mocking her.
(b) Rebelliousness.
(c) Cowardice.
(d) Aping men.

4. According to the chapter, Deuteronomy, what is time?
(a) A great deadener.
(b) The bringer of justice.
(c) An unfair tyrant.
(d) A thief.

5. How does Jean characterize a story heard from various perspectives?
(a) A stew with various ingrediants.
(b) A seamless wonder.
(c) A sandwich laced with mustard of her own.
(d) A vegetable and cream, pureed together.

6. What is the first thing that happens in the chapter titled Judges?
(a) Jean confesses her sexuality to the pastor.
(b) Jean packs for missionary school.
(c) Jean's mother tells her to move out.
(d) Jean announces her sexuality to the congregation.

7. What does Jean feel when she looks at a history book?
(a) She is curious about the new story.
(b) She is astonished at the imaginative effort.
(c) None of the above.
(d) She is repulsed by the pretention.

8. What must Winnet do to reach the beautiful city?
(a) Leave everything she knows.
(b) Push her boat out alone into an immense sea she was afraid of.
(c) All the above.
(d) Learn the ways of boat builders.

9. What are Jean and Melanie accused of during the sermon?
(a) All of the above.
(b) Loving each other with a love reserved for man and wife.
(c) Not loving God.
(d) Falling under Satan's spell.

10. What does Jean's mother say of Jean's sexuality?
(a) It was bad genes.
(b) She brought evil into the church.
(c) She was hopelessly lost to God.
(d) It was because her father was indecisive.

11. When Jean does not repent for the pastor, what does he tell Jean's mother to do?
(a) Kick her out of the house.
(b) Lock Jean in her room and not feed her.
(c) Supervise her at all times.
(d) Pray continuously for her.

12. Where does Jean go right after repenting and being released from her lockdown?
(a) To the employment office to be able to move.
(b) To find Melanie.
(c) To the top of the hill to think alone.
(d) To church to pray.

13. What do Jean and Mrs. Jewsbury do after Jean is accused at church?
(a) All of the above.
(b) Make love.
(c) Drink brandy.
(d) Talk.

14. Who does Jean meet during a tent mission in Blackpool?
(a) A methodist minister.
(b) A professor from Oxford.
(c) A new friend called Katy.
(d) An orange demon.

15. Why does Jean say her mother has always given her problems?
(a) She has her own agenda.
(b) She is enlightened and reactionary at the same time.
(c) She has faith above all else.
(d) She is hypocritical.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the sorcerer want of Winnet?

2. What does Jean envision her mother wishing for as she waits in her room?

3. Where did Katy and Jean go together?

4. What does Jean compare history to?

5. How much does Jean tell her mother about Melanie?

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