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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 makes Jean's mother decide to get Jean a new mac?
(a) When Jean begs for one.
(b) When she notices Jean's mac is getting threadbare.
(c) Running into Mrs Clifton who says she needs one.
(d) When the sleeve comes off.

2. What does Jean's mother do to get at the "heathens" who live next door?
(a) Plays the piano and sings hymns really loudly.
(b) Preaches to them over the garden fence.
(c) Knocks on their door every Sunday to tell them about the Lord.
(d) Leaves pamphlets in their mailbox.

3. What does the woman at the vermin shop give Jean?
(a) Some empty tins.
(b) A fever.
(c) The creeps.
(d) Some oranges.

4. What is Jean unsure how to do?
(a) Make babies.
(b) Choose a husband.
(c) Tell men from beasts.
(d) Get into a marriage.

5. What job does Jean end up getting from the wreath-making friend?
(a) Getting the dead ready for burial at an undertaker's.
(b) Making wire forms for wreaths.
(c) Growing carnations.
(d) Making wedding bouquets.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the moral of the story of the prince and the woman?

2. What does Jean help do one year when they go to Morecambe?

3. What do Jean and her mother do routinely on Sunday mornings?

4. What reason does Jean have for visiting Melanie every Monday?

5. What does the prince announce about the woman after their talk?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What is Jean's experience with the visiting pastor, Pastor Finch?

3. 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."

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

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

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

7. What does the prince write about perfection?

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

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

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

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