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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 3.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. A group of how many girlfriends of paramilitaries approach middle sister one night at a bar, frightening her into politeness?
(a) 8.
(b) 2.
(c) 6.
(d) 4.

3. Middle sister says that "those rare, baffling, radiant type of people" (88) referred to as shiny throughout the text had first been brought to her attention by a viewing of which Hitchcock film?
(a) Rear Window.
(b) Stranger on a Train.
(c) Rope.
(d) Psycho.

4. How many little girls comprise the group referred to as "wee sisters" (84)?
(a) 5.
(b) 2.
(c) 3.
(d) 4.

5. How old is the milkman at the time of the narrative's opening?
(a) Early twenties.
(b) Early forties.
(c) Late forties.
(d) Early thirties.

Short Answer Questions

1. What color van does middle sister see across the street from her college class, causing her to think that the milkman is inside?

2. What activity does middle sister assert in Chapter 2 that she will never give up?

3. Middle sister states in Chapter 2 that she feels what emotion toward third brother-in-law?

4. How many years older than the protagonist is maybe-boyfriend?

5. To what location had da really been traveling during his lengthy periods away from the family?

(see the answer key)

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