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

2. From what sort of addiction does third brother-in-law suffer, according to middle sister?
(a) An alcohol addiction.
(b) A sex addiction.
(c) A gambling addiction.
(d) An exercise addiction.

3. 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 coccyx.
(d) Her toes.

4. In what way does the truth leech into the untrue rumors circulating about middle sister?
(a) Some people tell ma that the milkman is two 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 six years older than middle sister.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Middle sister says that the milkman's communication with her nearly always consists of what?

2. Middle sister states that in her district, renouncers-of-the-state are viewed as what?

3. In what activity does middle sister like to engage while she is walking?

4. What kind of imaginary figure does chef address as he prepares meals?

5. What sound does middle sister accuse third brother-in-law of ignoring?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. What action does middle sister perform "without a shake" for "the first time in ages" (165) when the real milkman drops her off at home and why?

4. What contrast does middle sister point out between da's level of openness in life and his level of openness in death?

5. What is the ten-minute-area?

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

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

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

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

10. 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?

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