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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 does the prince announce about the woman after their talk?
(a) All of the above.
(b) She was not flawless.
(c) She was symmetrical in every respect.
(d) She is perfect.

2. What does the girl tell the adviser who tries to take her to the prince?
(a) She will not marry an imperfect prince.
(b) She is not interested in getting married.
(c) She is totally flawless.
(d) The prince must come seek her hand.

3. What does Jean help do one year when they go to Morecambe?
(a) Make wreaths for a boarding school where there had been an epidemic.
(b) Calculate the number of heathen in England.
(c) Mail pamphlets to the unholy.
(d) Play the tambourine for Pastor Spratt.

4. What reasons are given when adults discuss why Jean doesn't answer anyone?
(a) Jean is seven, which is a holy number, and strange things happen in sevens.
(b) Jean is in a state of rapture.
(c) The Lord works in mysterious ways.
(d) All of the above.

5. What does Jean usually do to the Brillo pad monkey in the collage at Elsie's when she plays with it?
(a) Has it find God and start to pray.
(b) Makes it take over the ark.
(c) Has a lion from the ark eat it.
(d) Drowns it.

Short Answer Questions

1. What was the hardest part for Jean of her temporary deafness?

2. How does Jean's mother refer to their neighbors?

3. In the story at the end of the chapter titled Leviticus, what is the girl like?

4. What does Jean's mother see in a child when she decided she wanted one?

5. Who is the faithful companion to the prince?

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

3. Summarize the story of Jean's mother and Pierre.

4. What happened in sewing class when the class worked on cross stitching projects?

5. What does the prince write about perfection?

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

7. Why don't Melanie and Jean think that what they share is what the pastor labels as "unnatural passion"?

8. Describe Jean's mother.

9. Describe how the church community misunderstood Jean's deafness. What did they say about her?

10. How is Jean's deafness discovered?

(see the answer keys)

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