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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. Which of the following best characterizes the way Jean's mother sees the world?
(a) As all God's creations.
(b) Black and white.
(c) A confusing jumble of forces.
(d) A place of shadowy nuances.

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

3. What does Jean sew onto her sampler in sewing class?
(a) To mother, with love.
(b) Lord be my guide.
(c) Great is the glory of God.
(d) The summer is ended and we are not yet saved.

4. What story does the telling of Jean's own beginnings parallel?
(a) Cinderella.
(b) The birth of Jesus.
(c) Her mother's childhood.
(d) The creation story.

5. What cures the sensitive princess in the story?
(a) Real responsibilities and service.
(b) A magic spell.
(c) God's love.
(d) Her family's love.

Short Answer Questions

1. What what Jean's mother's response when Jean told her about the marriage dream she had?

2. What function does Jean's mother's friend make wreaths for?

3. What is Melanie doing when Jean first sees her?

4. What makes Jean's mother decide to get Jean a new mac?

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

Short Essay Questions

1. How does her mother tell the story of Jean's adoption?

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

3. Describe Jean's mother.

4. 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?

5. How does Jean get to go the fair once a year? What happens to her there one year with a palm reader?

6. Who does Jean eventually get a Saturday job from? What does she do?

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

8. Describe the dream Jean has again and again about marriage.

9. Why does Jean's mother tell Jean the story of her and Pierre? What does she hope to accomplish?

10. In the beginning of the chapter, Leviticus, what do Jean and her mother hear coming from Next Door? What do they do about it?

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