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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What practice of middle sister's does longest friend say she had consistently warned middle sister to stop performing?
(a) Reading while walking.
(b) Laughing.
(c) Listening to the radio.
(d) Making eye contact.

2. 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) Days.
(b) Months.
(c) Years.
(d) Weeks.

3. Middle sister is shocked to hear from which character that she has been deemed a "beyond-the pale" (192) within the community?
(a) First brother-in-law.
(b) Eldest sister.
(c) Longest friend.
(d) Third brother-in-law.

4. 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) First brother-in-law's status as a sexual predator.
(b) The rearing of wee sisters.
(c) Middle sister's status as a beyond-the-pale.
(d) Milkman.

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

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

7. 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) The milkman's specific paramilitary group.
(b) Renouncers-of-the-state.
(c) Ma.
(d) Defenders-of-the-state.

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

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

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

11. How does longest friend get word to middle sister that she wants to meet with her?
(a) A letter.
(b) The telephone.
(c) A messenger's verbal message.
(d) A telegram.

12. What is true of every family member in longest friend's family?
(a) They are all in hiding.
(b) They are members of the renouncers-of-the-state.
(c) They are members of the defenders-of-the-state.
(d) They are deceased.

13. 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) Unacceptable.
(c) Loathsome.
(d) Irresponsible.

14. How many of middle sister's initial encounters with the milkman does she for some time try to see as "accidental" (166)?
(a) 2.
(b) 1.
(c) 3.
(d) 4.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. To whom does ma call out when she needs medicine for middle sister to be fetched from the "backyard pharmacy" (225)?

2. What phrase does longest friend use to characterize the reason why she had felt compelled to meet with middle sister?

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

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

5. 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?

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