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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.
Short Answer Questions
1. How does middle sister feel about the neighbors' comments to ma that she cannot take middle sister to the hospital?
2. Whose death is revealed at the end of Chapter 4?
3. At what time of night does the group of renouncers-of-the-state arrive at maybe-boyfriend's house to threaten him?
4. How does longest friend get word to middle sister that she wants to meet with her?
5. What information does middle sister say she and maybe-boyfriend had never exchanged?
Short Essay Questions
1. What revelation does ma make about real milkman during one of her breaks from the hospital?
2. What significant event happens in a chip shop shortly after real milkman is shot?
3. Who is ultimately revealed to have killed tablets girl?
4. What change occurs in middle sister's feelings for maybe-boyfriend after the milkman begins to stalk her?
5. Describe an instance when Burns makes a point about how polarization often leads to exclusion.
6. Who is tablets girl?
7. What is ironic about the fact that every time the milkman suddenly appears, he does so "in the manner of some ordinary meeting up" (166)?
8. What does middle sister mean when she says, "My inner world, it seemed, had gone away" (176)?
9. Discuss a particular allusion Burns uses to allude to another literary work associated with the theme of depression.
10. What act does middle sister see as the one that would symbolize her surrender to the milkman?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Write an essay that discusses the symbolism of the cover art chosen for Milkman.
Essay Topic 2
Would Burns’s novel Milkman be classified as a dystopian novel? Why or why not?
Essay Topic 3
How is the theme of injustice portrayed within Milkman? Examine Burns's treatment of and messages regarding injustice throughout the work.
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