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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 grocery store.
(b) A bar.
(c) A library.
(d) A graveyard.

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

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

4. 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 rearing of wee sisters.
(b) Her habit of walking while reading.
(c) The milkman.
(d) First brother-in-law's status as a sexual predator.

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

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

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

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

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

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

11. 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) Why middle sister had drunk so much alcohol.
(c) What middle sister had done to make someone mad enough to poison her.
(d) Who middle sister had married.

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

13. From what century is the work of literature from which middle sister reads to wee sisters after their mother's departure?
(a) The 18th.
(b) The 20th.
(c) The 19th.
(d) The 16th.

14. For what reason do the members of middle sister's community never visit the hospital for any reason, no matter how dire the circumstances?
(a) They know that hospitals are often the target of bombings when Catholics are inside receiving care.
(b) They know that the police, affiliated with the defenders-of-the state, will show up to interrogate them.
(c) They know that many of the doctors are spies for the defenders-of-the-state.
(d) They know that the paramilitaries, affiliated with the renouncers-of-the-state, will show up to interrogate them.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. To whom does ma hand over her purse in Chapter 6?

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

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?

4. At what time of night does the group of renouncers-of-the-state arrive at maybe-boyfriend's house to threaten him?

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

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