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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. How many years after longest friend's wedding does her husband die?
(a) 5.
(b) 2.
(c) 1.
(d) 3.

3. 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) 4.
(b) 1.
(c) 2.
(d) 3.

4. On which day of the week had tablets girl always poisoned people, prior to her more frequent poisonings?
(a) Friday.
(b) Monday.
(c) Wednesday.
(d) Saturday.

5. 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) First brother-in-law's status as a sexual predator.
(c) Middle sister's status as a beyond-the-pale.
(d) Milkman.

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

7. 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 the police, affiliated with the defenders-of-the state, will show up to interrogate them.
(b) They know that many of the doctors are spies for the defenders-of-the-state.
(c) They know that hospitals are often the target of bombings when Catholics are inside receiving care.
(d) They know that the paramilitaries, affiliated with the renouncers-of-the-state, will show up to interrogate them.

8. What is the title of the play from which middle sister reads to wee sisters while their mother is at the hospital?
(a) The Glass Menagerie.
(b) Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf.
(c) Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead.
(d) Equus.

9. How old is tablets girl, according to middle sister?
(a) Nearly 20.
(b) Nearly 30.
(c) Nearly 40.
(d) Nearly 50.

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

11. 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) 3.
(c) 1.
(d) 4.

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

13. Which aspect of maybe-boyfriend's latest method of communicating with middle sister in Chapter 6 causes her to recoil?
(a) His angry tone.
(b) His physicality.
(c) His desire to control.
(d) His numbness.

14. 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) 12.
(b) 9.
(c) 4.
(d) 6.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What does Jason-of-the-Names tell ma about real milkman when he calls her on the phone?

3. What element of maybe-boyfriend's body does middle sister describe as having been "the best, the most, the absolute of lovely" (167) before the milkman ruined her perspective?

4. Middle sister has known longest friend since they met at what type of school?

5. From what century is the work of literature from which middle sister reads to wee sisters after their mother's departure?

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