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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 about how long have middle sister and maybe-boyfriend been together at the period of time focused on in the narrative?
(a) 2 years.
(b) 6 months.
(c) 3 years.
(d) 1 year.

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

3. What is the title of the play from which middle sister reads to wee sisters while their mother is at the hospital?
(a) Equus.
(b) The Glass Menagerie.
(c) Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf.
(d) Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead.

4. Middle sister finally reveals that she had been how old at the time of the mass-slaughter of animals in her neighborhood?
(a) 12.
(b) 7.
(c) 9.
(d) 14.

5. Middle sister recalls joining together with which other character in order to warn wee sisters about first brother-in-law?
(a) Tablets girl.
(b) Third brother-in-law.
(c) Real milkman.
(d) Third sister.

Short Answer Questions

1. How old is the milkman at the time of the narrative's opening?

2. On how many previous occasions had ma handed over her purse to someone else?

3. From what century is the work of literature from which middle sister reads to wee sisters after their mother's departure?

4. 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?

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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