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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. After her visitor, what does Jean announce she is ready to do?
(a) Never see Melanie again.
(b) Get married.
(c) Repent.
(d) Move out.

2. What does Jean find out one day driving the ice cream truck?
(a) The pastor speaks of her all the time as a warning.
(b) Elsie died.
(c) Her mother had cried for days when she left.
(d) The church has more members than ever.

3. What does Jean say about the curious?
(a) They look outward to not look in.
(b) They are blind.
(c) They are the engine of the world.
(d) They are always in some danger.

4. What is the first thing that happens in the chapter titled Judges?
(a) Jean confesses her sexuality to the pastor.
(b) Jean packs for missionary school.
(c) Jean's mother tells her to move out.
(d) Jean announces her sexuality to the congregation.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the sorcerer do for Winnet to help her feel safe dining with him?

2. What advice is Jean trying to give us at the end of the chapter titled Deuteronomy?

3. In general terms, what is the chapter Deuteronomy about?

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

5. Who knew about Jean and Melanie and tried to help them?

Short Essay Questions

1. What happens at Elsie's funeral?

2. How was Katy and Jean's relationship discovered by the members of the church?

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

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

5. What is Jean's mother's reaction to the discovery of Jean's continued interest in women?

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

7. Describe the nature and style of the chapter entitled Deuteronomy.

8. How does Winnet end up living with the sorcerer and believing she is his daughter?

9. What is the point the author makes using the pilgrim fathers in her chapter entitled Deuteronomy?

10. Describe how the author describes Pol Pot in relation to history in the chapter entitled Deuteronomy.

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