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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 many of the doctors are spies for the defenders-of-the-state.
(b) They know that the police, affiliated with the defenders-of-the state, will show up to interrogate them.
(c) They know that hospitals are often the target of bombings when Catholics are inside receiving care.
(d) They know that the paramilitaries, affiliated with the renouncers-of-the-state, will show up to interrogate them.

2. What length of time is said to have passed between middle sister's first encounter with the milkman and her meeting at the bar with longest friend?
(a) Months.
(b) Years.
(c) Weeks.
(d) Days.

3. When longest friend says she has to bring up a second one of middle sister's transgressive practices, she brings up middle sister's possession of what object?
(a) The whiskers of a rat.
(b) The head of a cat.
(c) The tail of a cat.
(d) The ear of a dog.

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

5. What is middle sister's intention when she picks up the head of the animal in the ten-minute area?
(a) To bury it somewhere green.
(b) To use it to cast a spell.
(c) To show it to maybe-boyfriend.
(d) To use it for a photography project.

Short Answer Questions

1. What objects does middle sister use to wrap the head of the animal she finds in the ten-minute area?

2. Middle sister protests inwardly when longest friend tells middle sister that she has fallen into what "zone" (208)?

3. How many hours after she goes to bed does middle sister wake up with "unbelievable stomach pains" (214) as described at the start of Chapter 5?

4. How many weeks after real milkman is hurt does middle sister go to the chip shop, where she is then confronted by the community?

5. Middle sister describes a night when all "but two" (94) of which animals in her neighborhood had been slaughtered by soldiers?

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