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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 Jean tell the church?
(a) Her love affair with Melanie never ended.
(b) She was weak and the demon repossessed her.
(c) Love is never a sin.
(d) She would always love women.

2. What is Jean's mother's response to the news about Jean's sexuality?
(a) She breaks every plate in the house and calls the pastor.
(b) She demands Jean leave immediately for missionary school.
(c) She tells Jean they will always be family no matter what she does.
(d) She confesses her own affair with another woman.

3. How is this fifth chapter of ORANGES ARE NOT THE ONLY FRUIT best characterized?
(a) Symbolic and metaphorical.
(b) Cautionary and paranoid.
(c) Simple and straightforward.
(d) Spiritual and Godly.

4. How does Jean feel about her church before she is accused in the sermon?
(a) She feels safe and there was nowhere she'd rather be.
(b) She feels like she is untouchable.
(c) She is nervous about what would happen if they found out.
(d) She feels stifled and nervous.

5. What is Winnet's punishment from the sorcerer?
(a) She has to leave, or tend the goats if she stays.
(b) She is turned into a raven.
(c) She has to watch the boy marry and raise a family with another girl.
(d) She is made to forget everyone she loves.

Short Answer Questions

1. What was the Awful Occasion?

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

3. What does Jean call treating the past with objective respect?

4. What does the raven warn Winnet will happen if she stays in the place she loves?

5. What do people do when they tell stories?

Short Essay Questions

1. What happens that makes the sorcerer cast Winnet out?

2. Who is a friend to Jean after she is exposed for loving women for the second time? What does she do to help?

3. What is it like for Winnet living in the village? Why does she decide she has to leave?

4. How and when are Melanie and Jean ousted to the church? What happens?

5. What happens when Jean returns home for a visit?

6. In what ways might the chapter entitled Deuteronomy apply to Jean's life?

7. What do the pastor and her mother pinpoint as the culprit for Jean's sexuality?

8. What makes Jean's mother aware of what is happening between Jean and Melanie?

9. While Jean is locked up in her mother's house after being accused of loving Melanie at church, who does Jean talk to and what do they say?

10. Describe the food metaphor the author uses to describe hearing about an event from various sources.

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