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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. How many other people in the community had already been declared beyond-the-pales when middle sister suffers the same fate?
(a) 7.
(b) 11.
(c) 9.
(d) 4.

3. 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) 6.
(b) 4.
(c) 2.
(d) 10.

4. Which character joined a convent, thereby breaking real milkman's heart during his youth?
(a) Peggy.
(b) Ma.
(c) Eldest sister.
(d) Agnes.

5. What length of time is said to have passed between middle sister's first encounter with the milkman and her meeting at the bar with longest friend?
(a) Months.
(b) Years.
(c) Weeks.
(d) Days.

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

7. Which of middle sister's siblings had lost her true love due to the explosion of a car bomb?
(a) Eldest sister.
(b) Second sister.
(c) Third sister.
(d) One of the three wee sisters.

8. How many months after the meeting between middle sister and longest friend at the drinking-club does middle sister attend longest friend's wedding?
(a) 9.
(b) 6.
(c) 4.
(d) 12.

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

10. When middle sister thinks about her discussion with a particular character in the bar, she tells the reader that to her surprise, the topic of the discussion had actually been what?
(a) The rearing of wee sisters.
(b) Milkman.
(c) Middle sister's status as a beyond-the-pale.
(d) First brother-in-law's status as a sexual predator.

11. How many weeks after real milkman is hurt does middle sister go to the chip shop, where she is then confronted by the community?
(a) 3.
(b) 2.
(c) 1.
(d) 4.

12. What accessory does longest friend wear with her wedding gown?
(a) A train.
(b) A veil.
(c) A bulletproof vest.
(d) Dark glasses.

13. When middle sister mulls over her meeting with a certain character at the bar, she says that she had expected the discussion to be about what topic?
(a) The milkman.
(b) Her habit of walking while reading.
(c) The rearing of wee sisters.
(d) First brother-in-law's status as a sexual predator.

14. Middle sister often pleads with maybe-boyfriend not to take what action?
(a) Call her at her house.
(b) Drive his car.
(c) Walk through the ten-minute area.
(d) Tell chef about their sex life.

15. Middle sister protests inwardly when longest friend tells middle sister that she has fallen into what "zone" (208)?
(a) Difficult.
(b) Renouncer.
(c) Shiny.
(d) Defender.

Short Answer Questions

1. Which aspect of maybe-boyfriend's latest method of communicating with middle sister in Chapter 6 causes her to recoil?

2. What is true of every family member in longest friend's family?

3. How many years after longest friend's wedding does her husband die?

4. Middle sister is shocked to find herself labeled in the same way as which other character?

5. What practice of middle sister's does longest friend say she had consistently warned middle sister to stop performing?

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