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

2. What are Jean and Melanie accused of during the sermon?
(a) Falling under Satan's spell.
(b) All of the above.
(c) Not loving God.
(d) Loving each other with a love reserved for man and wife.

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

4. Who comes to visit Jean while she is locked in her room?
(a) An orange demon.
(b) Elsie.
(c) Melanie.
(d) The pastor.

5. Which of the following best describes the attitude of Jean's mother when Jean comes back for a visit?
(a) Happy to see her.
(b) Superior and distant.
(c) So casual Jean wonders if she realized she had been gone.
(d) Irate and vindictive.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Jean's mother call Jean's romantic love for another woman?

2. How does Jean characterize uncertainty to her?

3. Where does Jean go right after repenting and being released from her lockdown?

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

5. What does Jean say people do with the past when it gets too difficult?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. Where does Melanie go, and with whom, after being accused at church? What happens?

3. What does Jean tell the church to protect Katy?

4. According to the chapter Deuteronomy what are some ways that people change or deny the past?

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

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

7. What happens at Elsie's funeral?

8. 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?

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

10. Describe what happened when Jean's biological mother returned to claim her.

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