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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. When middle sister believes that the milkman has shown up outside of her college, she feels a "strange bodily sensation" (78) in which part of her body?
(a) Her scalp.
(b) Her calves.
(c) Her coccyx.
(d) Her toes.

2. What kinds of abandoned buildings occupy the location called "the ten-minute area" (81)?
(a) Churches.
(b) Homes.
(c) Libraries.
(d) Banks.

3. While walking through the ten-minute area on her way back from French class, middle sister finds the head of what kind of animal?
(a) A cat.
(b) A fox.
(c) A dog.
(d) A rat.

4. What title do maybe-boyfriend's parents sign at the bottom of the note they send to their boys?
(a) Dreamers.
(b) Dancers.
(c) Reprobates.
(d) Parents.

5. How many years older than the protagonist is maybe-boyfriend?
(a) 2.
(b) 5.
(c) 7.
(d) 1.

Short Answer Questions

1. Middle sister believes that the milkman's threats in relation to maybe-boyfriend have to do with maybe-boyfriend's procurement of what object?

2. A group of how many girlfriends of paramilitaries approach middle sister one night at a bar, frightening her into politeness?

3. Which character has been making lewd remarks to middle sister since the day he met her?

4. When middle sister believes that the milkman has followed her to her college class, she feels like a fool for believing that which tactic had worked?

5. What is middle sister's intention when she picks up the head of the animal in the ten-minute area?

Short Essay Questions

1. What evidence does middle sister provide for her claim that third brother-in-law should have been designated as a "beyond-the-pale" (41) by now, but that he has not?

2. Discuss one quality within French teacher's personality that qualifies her as a "beyond-the-pale," (69) according to middle sister.

3. What event convinces middle sister that the tactics she has been using to ward off the milkman are not working?

4. Why are the students in middle sister's French class so loathe to hear the sky described as any other color besides blue?

5. How do the students in middle sister's class react to French teacher's comments about the sky and which elements of their society have caused them to instinctively feel this way?

6. What are the real reasons for middle sister's reluctance to meet maybe-boyfriend in her own neighborhood?

7. Which answers are said to be "acceptable" (72) when one is asked the color of the sky in middle sister's society?

8. For what reason does middle sister discuss the activities that go on in the park where she likes to go for runs?

9. What truths does middle sister reveal to ma during their first conversation about the milkman?

10. Describe an instance when sound is used to underscore a particular theme within Chapter 1.

(see the answer keys)

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