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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 7.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What action do middle sister and her running partner take just before they head out for a run together at the end of the novel?
(a) They laugh.
(b) They hug.
(c) They stretch.
(d) They shake hands.

2. Middle sister says that every other student in the class is different from her in what way?
(a) They are Protestants.
(b) They are younger than middle sister.
(c) They are older than middle sister.
(d) They all have full-time jobs.

3. What does middle sister do in Chapter 6 when a former couple sees each other for the first time in ages?
(a) She sits down nearby.
(b) She turns her back.
(c) She watches.
(d) She walks home.

4. What action does middle sister claim to experience in relation to the lasting effects of milkman's death?
(a) Pitying.
(b) Toughening.
(c) Mourning.
(d) Forgetting.

5. In what kind of establishment does middle sister have a contentious altercation with members of her community?
(a) A chip shop.
(b) A newspaper stand.
(c) A church.
(d) A bakery.

Short Answer Questions

1. 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?

2. Which character is declared by the issues women to be the only man in the area who understands and supports their positions?

3. What information does ma demand of middle sister just before she calls out for ingredients to be brought from the "backyard pharmacy" (225)?

4. In what location does first brother-in-law lie within his house while recuperation from "a recent paramilitary beating-up" (332)?

5. What type of abandoned building is blown up by a bomb near the end of Chapter 2?

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