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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How many people in the group of seven men confronting maybe-boyfriend are wearing balaclavas?
(a) 3.
(b) 4.
(c) 2.
(d) 5.

2. To whom does ma hand over her purse in Chapter 6?
(a) Wee sisters.
(b) Real milkman.
(c) Middle sister.
(d) Eldest sister.

3. How many weeks after real milkman is hurt does middle sister go to the chip shop, where she is then confronted by the community?
(a) 2.
(b) 1.
(c) 3.
(d) 4.

4. Middle sister protests inwardly when longest friend tells middle sister that she has fallen into what "zone" (208)?
(a) Defender.
(b) Shiny.
(c) Difficult.
(d) Renouncer.

5. Who threatens tablets girl's family that they will kill her if she does not stop using poison, just after she has nearly killed her own family member?
(a) Defenders-of-the-state.
(b) The milkman's specific paramilitary group.
(c) Renouncers-of-the-state.
(d) Ma.

6. What information does middle sister say she and maybe-boyfriend had never exchanged?
(a) Political affiliations.
(b) Addresses.
(c) Phone numbers.
(d) Religious affiliations.

7. What type of weapon does the milkman continually mention when threatening to take maybe-boyfriend's life?
(a) A lead pipe.
(b) A pistol.
(c) A machete.
(d) A car bomb.

8. Which character joined a convent, thereby breaking real milkman's heart during his youth?
(a) Agnes.
(b) Eldest sister.
(c) Peggy.
(d) Ma.

9. What is Semtex?
(a) An explosive agent.
(b) A brand of tissues.
(c) A museum.
(d) A holiday.

10. How does middle sister feel about the neighbors' comments to ma that she cannot take middle sister to the hospital?
(a) She agrees.
(b) She expresses no opinion to the reader.
(c) She disagrees.
(d) She is unconscious at the time.

11. Jason-of-the-Names tells ma on the phone that real milkman is now in which location?
(a) His own home.
(b) Jail.
(c) A detention facility.
(d) The hospital.

12. What information does ma demand of middle sister just before she calls out for ingredients to be brought from the "backyard pharmacy" (225)?
(a) Who middle sister had married.
(b) Why middle sister had drunk so much alcohol.
(c) Where the milkman is.
(d) What middle sister had done to make someone mad enough to poison her.

13. Who accuses maybe-boyfriend of being the milkman when he makes an attempt to contact middle sister during her recuperation period?
(a) Eldest sister.
(b) Wee sisters.
(c) Ma.
(d) Da.

14. When ma returns from the hospital, she tells middle sister that she is in love with which character?
(a) Real milkman.
(b) Jason-of-the-names.
(c) The milkman.
(d) First brother-in-law.

15. How many people in the group of seven men confronting maybe-boyfriend at his house are carrying guns?
(a) 7.
(b) 5.
(c) 2.
(d) 3.

Short Answer Questions

1. Which "shiny" member of tablets girl's family does she poison, permanently affecting her victim's "health and eyesight" (217)?

2. When ma hands over her purse to someone before going to the hospital, middle sister feels an emotion akin to what?

3. How many of middle sister's initial encounters with the milkman does she for some time try to see as "accidental" (166)?

4. On how many previous occasions had ma handed over her purse to someone else?

5. When tablet girl poisons her family member, she had been having a delusion that the family member had constituted what kind of "aspect of herself" (219)?

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