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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is her mother's response when Jean asks her why she married her father?
(a) "We had to have something for you."
(b) " I couldn't make it on my own."
(c) " I needed him."
(d) "I loved him."

2. What is one technique Jean's mother uses in the Society for the Lost?
(a) She passedsout pamphlets at other churches.
(b) She sends out literature about hell and damnation.
(c) She preaches on street corners.
(d) She gives away gifts to members.

3. What function does Jean's mother's friend make wreaths for?
(a) Christmas.
(b) Parades.
(c) Funerals.
(d) Weddings.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. How successful are Jean's art projects at school?

2. What does Jean assume when she first senses hearing loss?

3. What does Jean usually do to the Brillo pad monkey in the collage at Elsie's when she plays with it?

4. What gift does Elsie give Jean?

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

Short Essay Questions

1. When she is young and still trying to understand men and marriage, what is Jean's general opinion of men? Where does it come from?

2. Who is the prince in the story, and what does he believe he wants?

3. Who invites Jean to go to the seaside? What happens and why does her mother not let her?

4. What does the headmistress call Jean into her office for? Why? What is Jean's response?

5. What does the prince write about perfection?

6. What kinds of stories does Jean's mother tell her while the walk on Sundays? Give some examples.

7. In an attempt to fit in at school, what does Jean change about her art projects? How does that go?

8. What does the perfect girl the prince finds tell him?

9. How did Jean's mother get started with the Society for the Lost?

10. Explain why this statement is relevant to Jean's predicament at school: "What constitutes a problem is not the thing, or the environment where we find the thing, but the conjunction of the two."

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