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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 4.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What phrase does longest friend use to characterize the reason why she had felt compelled to meet with middle sister?
(a) Mental deterioration.
(b) Lack of patriotism.
(c) Weak heart.
(d) Death wish.

2. What kinds of abandoned buildings occupy the location called "the ten-minute area" (81)?
(a) Libraries.
(b) Churches.
(c) Homes.
(d) Banks.

3. Middle sister says that everyone in her neighborhood, renouncers or not, waits at least how many minutes before venturing outside once they hear the dogs start to bark?
(a) 15.
(b) 30.
(c) 60.
(d) 45.

4. French teacher tells her students that their "temporary unhingement" (76) as a result of the discussion is a sign of what?
(a) Indoctrination.
(b) Intelligence.
(c) Oppression.
(d) Progress.

5. How many miles does middle sister right away agree to run, in the process shocking her running partner?
(a) 12.
(b) 6.
(c) 8.
(d) 16.

Short Answer Questions

1. When middle sister believes that the milkman has followed her to her college class, she feels like a fool for believing that which tactic had worked?

2. At the time of the mass-slaughter of neighborhood animals by soldiers, middle sister and which other character had been the youngest children in their family?

3. Which character has been making lewd remarks to middle sister since the day he met her?

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

5. Longest friend reports that which character has been brought into court on charges of "propositioning holy women" (213)?

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