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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does the pastor tell Jean when they run into each other?
(a) That Melanie never loved her.
(b) That the church missed her and her energy.
(c) That he had handled the situation poorly.
(d) The church was better without her.

2. What allows Jean to spend many nights with Melanie?
(a) Nobody cared about her whereabouts.
(b) She lied about where she was.
(c) The church group often slept at each other's homes.
(d) Her mother approved of the friendship.

3. What does Jean envision her mother wishing for as she waits in her room?
(a) To be transported by God away from the world.
(b) A tearful reunion of the two of them.
(c) Her and her room to go up in flames while the house remained untouched.
(d) To not have children.

4. Which of the following best characterizes a belief held by Jean's mother?
(a) Jean's sexuality was a wilfull act to sell her soul.
(b) Everyone had a choice to be saved or fall to the devil.
(c) Everyone made themself and people what they wanted.
(d) All of the above.

5. When is the last time Jean sees Elsie?
(a) Elsie comes out to her ice cream truck to tell Jean she' dying.
(b) Jean spends the night at her side in the funeral parlor.
(c) The church holds a wake for Elsie and Jean attends.
(d) Jean visits her in the hospital early in the morning so she won't run into anyone.

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

7. What does the sorcerer do for Winnet to help her feel safe dining with him?
(a) He tells her his name.
(b) He gives her the source of his power.
(c) He draws a chalk circle with a little gap in it for her to step into and then close.
(d) He tells her details of her own life.

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

9. When the pastor and Jean's mother try to set up another exorcism, what does Jean say?
(a) She is leaving the church.
(b) She doubts it will work.
(c) They are the ones with the problem.
(d) She does not have a demon.

10. How intent is Jean on becoming a missionary?
(a) She would like to, but the church won't let her.
(b) It is her life mission.
(c) She wants to enroll in missionary school as a way to stay with the church.
(d) She doesn't want to.

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

12. What does Jean compare history to?
(a) Our own personal past.
(b) A string full of knots.
(c) A religious text.
(d) Fairy tales.

13. What does Jean's visitor tell her while she is locked in?
(a) She shouldn't believe everything she reads in the Bible.
(b) All of the above.
(c) If she ignores this issue, she'll end up in pieces.
(d) Demons aren't evil, just different.

14. What must explorers bring back?
(a) A new history to write.
(b) Potatoes or tobacco or gold.
(c) A new way to see history.
(d) A memory and a story.

15. What does Winnet do for the boy?
(a) Tells him to deny her and blame her to the sorcerer so he can be free.
(b) Defends him to the sorcerer.
(c) All the above.
(d) She sets him free from his cell.

Short Answer Questions

1. What do Jean and Mrs. Jewsbury do after Jean is accused at church?

2. What does the pastor identify as the root cause of the problem with Jean?

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

4. What do Jean's mother and the pastor argue about?

5. What does the chapter titled Judges open with?

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