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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What word does ma use to describe real milkman's condition?
(a) Critical.
(b) Good.
(c) Dire.
(d) Stable.

2. Who carries tablets girl's sister to his car with the intention of taking her to the hospital?
(a) Maybe-boyfriend.
(b) First brother-in-law.
(c) Da.
(d) Third brother.

3. Ma tells wee sisters that while she is briefly away from middle sister's side, they need to make sure that middle sister does not engage in what activity?
(a) Sleeping.
(b) Escaping.
(c) Crying.
(d) Reading.

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

5. How many people in the group of seven men confronting maybe-boyfriend at his house are carrying guns?
(a) 2.
(b) 3.
(c) 5.
(d) 7.

6. Tablets girl poisons middle sister just after which character has departed from the table to use the restroom at the bar?
(a) Maybe-boyfriend.
(b) First brother-in-law.
(c) Longest friend.
(d) Third brother-in-law.

7. After dogs eat the chips middle sister has thrown onto the ground, which character does she see?
(a) Tablets girl.
(b) Third brother-in-law.
(c) Tablets girl's sister.
(d) Eldest sister.

8. Which "shiny" member of tablets girl's family does she poison, permanently affecting her victim's "health and eyesight" (217)?
(a) Her aunt.
(b) Her cousin.
(c) Her sister.
(d) Her mother.

9. How many hours after she goes to bed does middle sister wake up with "unbelievable stomach pains" (214) as described at the start of Chapter 5?
(a) 10.
(b) 4.
(c) 6.
(d) 2.

10. How many people in the group of seven men confronting maybe-boyfriend are wearing balaclavas?
(a) 2.
(b) 5.
(c) 3.
(d) 4.

11. Whose death is revealed at the end of Chapter 4?
(a) Maybe-boyfriend's.
(b) Eldest sister's.
(c) First brother-in-law's.
(d) Longest friend's.

12. What type of establishment is the location referred to by the community as "the usual place" (169)?
(a) A bar.
(b) A library.
(c) A graveyard.
(d) A grocery store.

13. Who threatens tablets girl's family that they will kill her if she does not stop using poison, just after she has nearly killed her own family member?
(a) Renouncers-of-the-state.
(b) The milkman's specific paramilitary group.
(c) Ma.
(d) Defenders-of-the-state.

14. What information does ma demand of middle sister just before she calls out for ingredients to be brought from the "backyard pharmacy" (225)?
(a) Where the milkman is.
(b) Who middle sister had married.
(c) What middle sister had done to make someone mad enough to poison her.
(d) Why middle sister had drunk so much alcohol.

15. Who accuses maybe-boyfriend of being the milkman when he makes an attempt to contact middle sister during her recuperation period?
(a) Wee sisters.
(b) Ma.
(c) Eldest sister.
(d) Da.

Short Answer Questions

1. In what area of the most popular drinking-club in the district do middle sister and longest friend meet up?

2. What objects does middle sister throw onto the ground after she leaves the place where she has just had a contentious encounter with the community?

3. Middle sister recalls joining together with which other character in order to warn wee sisters about first brother-in-law?

4. Into what substance does tablets girl dose her victims with poison?

5. What information does middle sister say she and maybe-boyfriend had never exchanged?

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