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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. Middle sister says that ma has been tormenting her about her lack of a husband since which one of her birthdays?
(a) Her 18th.
(b) Her 19th.
(c) Her 17th.
(d) Her 16th.

2. About whom is middle sister thinking when she distractedly agrees to her running partner's initial suggestion about how many miles they should run?
(a) The milkman.
(b) Ma.
(c) Thingy.
(d) Da.

3. What adjective is used to refer to middle sister's younger sisters?
(a) Wee.
(b) Tiny.
(c) Little.
(d) Small

4. A group of how many girlfriends of paramilitaries approach middle sister one night at a bar, frightening her into politeness?
(a) 8.
(b) 6.
(c) 2.
(d) 4.

5. What activity does middle sister assert in Chapter 2 that she will never give up?
(a) Teaching wee sisters how to hide their emotions.
(b) Believing that da had loved his family.
(c) Reading while walking.
(d) Running while reading.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the subject of the literary passage French teacher reads to the class in French?

2. While walking through the ten-minute area on her way back from French class, middle sister finds the head of what kind of animal?

3. To what location had da really been traveling during his lengthy periods away from the family?

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. For what reason does the real milkman bring up the subject of wee sisters?

2. 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?

3. Which elements of middle sister's second interaction with the milkman make her feel relatively safe?

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

6. Which character does middle sister suspect of having started a rumor about herself and an older man?

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

8. Who is the milkman?

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

10. What horrific and significant event had occurred when middle sister was nine years old?

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