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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What word does middle sister use to indicate how she feels after confiding in longest friend?
(a) Better.
(b) Hopeful.
(c) Worse.
(d) Lighter.

3. 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?
(a) The head of a cat.
(b) The ear of a dog.
(c) The whiskers of a rat.
(d) The tail of a cat.

4. When ma returns from the hospital, she tells middle sister that she is in love with which character?
(a) Real milkman.
(b) First brother-in-law.
(c) Jason-of-the-names.
(d) The milkman.

5. At what time of night does the group of renouncers-of-the-state arrive at maybe-boyfriend's house to threaten him?
(a) 8.
(b) 11.
(c) 9.
(d) 7.

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

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

8. Into what substance does tablets girl dose her victims with poison?
(a) Food.
(b) Tobacco.
(c) Toothpaste.
(d) Drinks.

9. 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.

10. What does Jason-of-the-Names tell ma about real milkman when he calls her on the phone?
(a) He has been taken in for questioning.
(b) He is dead.
(c) He has been shot.
(d) He is missing.

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

12. On how many previous occasions had ma handed over her purse to someone else?
(a) 1.
(b) 2.
(c) 4.
(d) 3.

13. Jason-of-the-Names tells ma on the phone that real milkman is now in which location?
(a) The hospital.
(b) A detention facility.
(c) His own home.
(d) Jail.

14. When ma hands over her purse to someone before going to the hospital, middle sister feels an emotion akin to what?
(a) Bravery.
(b) Adulation.
(c) Sorrow.
(d) Panic.

15. The gossip centered around middle sister and the milkman names which location as their favorite place to meet?
(a) An abandoned church.
(b) The cemetery.
(c) The chip shop.
(d) City Hall.

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. Tablets girl poisons middle sister just after which character has departed from the table to use the restroom at the bar?

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

4. In what kind of establishment does middle sister have a contentious altercation with members of her community?

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

(see the answer keys)

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