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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Longest friend reveals that which character had been the source of the original rumors about middle sister?
(a) Ma.
(b) Real milkman.
(c) Eldest sister.
(d) First brother-in-law.

2. Which character asks middle sister to go along on a sunset-viewing expedition?
(a) Ma.
(b) Eldest sister.
(c) Third brother-in-law.
(d) Maybe-boyfriend.

3. In the novel's opening, how old is middle sister, the protagonist of the text?
(a) 16.
(b) 14.
(c) 12.
(d) 18.

4. Which literary character does middle sister allude to when describing "armchair supporters" (112) of renouncers?
(a) Candide.
(b) Anna Karenina.
(c) Walter Mitty.
(d) Holden Caulfield.

5. Middle sister says that ma has been tormenting her about her lack of a husband since which one of her birthdays?
(a) Her 17th.
(b) Her 19th.
(c) Her 18th.
(d) Her 16th.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. 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?

3. What is middle sister's intention when she picks up the head of the animal in the ten-minute area?

4. 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?

5. At what time of night does the group of renouncers-of-the-state arrive at maybe-boyfriend's house to threaten him?

(see the answer key)

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