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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 everyone in her neighborhood, renouncers or not, waits at least how many minutes before venturing outside once they hear the dogs start to bark?
(a) 30.
(b) 45.
(c) 15.
(d) 60.

2. 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 calves.
(b) Her scalp.
(c) Her toes.
(d) Her coccyx.

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

4. What is the only event that ever causes maybe-boyfriend to become angry and combative?
(a) When others talk about politics.
(b) When others spread rumors about neighborhood women.
(c) When others talk about his absent parents.
(d) When others bully his best friend.

5. In what way does the truth leech into the untrue rumors circulating about middle sister?
(a) Some people tell ma that the milkman is six years older than middle sister.
(b) Some people tell ma that the milkman is an auto mechanic.
(c) Some people tell ma that the milkman has an eccentric best friend.
(d) Some people tell ma that the milkman is two years older than middle sister.

Short Answer Questions

1. Middle sister states in Chapter 2 that she feels what emotion toward third brother-in-law?

2. How many objections does middle sister consider when maybe-boyfriend suggests that they move in together?

3. How many little girls comprise the group referred to as "wee sisters" (84)?

4. Middle sister describes a night when all "but two" (94) of which animals in her neighborhood had been slaughtered by soldiers?

5. After the departure of maybe-boyfriend's parents, the son had "never heard from their parents again, except" (31) through what medium?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. Who is the milkman?

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

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

6. Which member of middle sister's family does she despise and why?

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

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

9. What does maybe-boyfriend suspect about middle sister's reasons for never meeting him in her own neighborhood?

10. What aspects of maybe-boyfriend's life are revealed within Chapters 1 and 2 of the novel?

(see the answer keys)

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