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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. 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) 12.
(d) 4.

2. When tablet girl poisons her family member, she had been having a delusion that the family member had constituted what kind of "aspect of herself" (219)?
(a) Shiny.
(b) Loathsome.
(c) Unacceptable.
(d) Irresponsible.

3. To whom does ma hand over her purse in Chapter 6?
(a) Real milkman.
(b) Wee sisters.
(c) Middle sister.
(d) Eldest sister.

4. 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.

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

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

7. To whom does ma call out when she needs medicine for middle sister to be fetched from the "backyard pharmacy" (225)?
(a) Third brother-in-law.
(b) Maybe-boyfriend.
(c) Eldest sister.
(d) Wee sisters.

8. Middle sister has known longest friend since they met at what type of school?
(a) College.
(b) Traffic school.
(c) Secondary.
(d) Primary.

9. 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.

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

11. 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) 4.
(b) 10.
(c) 6.
(d) 2.

12. What information does middle sister say she and maybe-boyfriend had never exchanged?
(a) Religious affiliations.
(b) Addresses.
(c) Phone numbers.
(d) Political affiliations.

13. What element of middle sister's personality does longest friend demand that middle sister eradicate?
(a) Her numb affectations.
(b) Her sense of humor.
(c) Her flighty affectations.
(d) Her visible and seething rage.

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

15. Which element of speech had inspired suspicion in middle sister's mind long before the appearance of the milkman in her life?
(a) Names.
(b) Questions.
(c) Verbs.
(d) Interjections.

Short Answer Questions

1. 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?

2. Longest friend reveals that which character had been the source of the original rumors about middle sister?

3. Which "shiny" member of tablets girl's family does she poison, permanently affecting her victim's "health and eyesight" (217)?

4. What information does ma demand of middle sister just before she calls out for ingredients to be brought from the "backyard pharmacy" (225)?

5. Who comes up behind middle sister in Chapter 6 and puts his arms around her?

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