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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 5 and 6.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. For what reason do the members of middle sister's community never visit the hospital for any reason, no matter how dire the circumstances?
(a) They know that hospitals are often the target of bombings when Catholics are inside receiving care.
(b) They know that many of the doctors are spies for the defenders-of-the-state.
(c) They know that the police, affiliated with the defenders-of-the state, will show up to interrogate them.
(d) They know that the paramilitaries, affiliated with the renouncers-of-the-state, will show up to interrogate them.

2. What sound does middle sister accuse third brother-in-law of ignoring?
(a) The sound of a gunshot.
(b) The sound of a woman's scream.
(c) The sound of an explosion.
(d) The sound of a camera.

3. What type of incident had recently reduced the number of buildings in the "ten-minute area" (81) to two?
(a) An act of arson.
(b) A flood.
(c) A wrecking crew's arrival.
(d) A bombing.

4. Whose death is revealed at the end of Chapter 4?
(a) Maybe-boyfriend's.
(b) First brother-in-law's.
(c) Longest friend's.
(d) Eldest sister's.

5. After dogs eat the chips middle sister has thrown onto the ground, which character does she see?
(a) Tablets girl.
(b) Third brother-in-law.
(c) Eldest sister.
(d) Tablets girl's sister.

Short Answer Questions

1. How old is the milkman at the time of the narrative's opening?

2. When middle sister believes that the milkman has shown up outside of her college, she feels a "strange bodily sensation" (78) in which part of her body?

3. What action does middle sister take when she hears the milkman make a veiled threat against maybe-boyfriend?

4. While walking through the ten-minute area on her way back from French class, middle sister finds the head of what kind of animal?

5. Middle sister states that which character's status of being "wedged between" (188) her and maybe-boyfriend has damaged their relationship?

(see the answer key)

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