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

2. What action does middle sister take when she hears the milkman make a veiled threat against maybe-boyfriend?
(a) She jumps.
(b) She moans.
(c) She collapses.
(d) She sobs.

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What word does middle sister use to indicate how she feels after confiding in longest friend?

3. What sound does middle sister accuse third brother-in-law of ignoring?

4. Third brother-in-law surprises middle sister when he chides her about which of her actions?

5. In what way does the truth leech into the untrue rumors circulating about middle sister?

(see the answer key)

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