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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 length of time is said to have passed between middle sister's first encounter with the milkman and her meeting at the bar with longest friend?
(a) Years.
(b) Days.
(c) Months.
(d) Weeks.

2. The character middle sister sees after the dogs eat the chips is afflicted with which malady or disability?
(a) Blindness.
(b) The effects of polio.
(c) Schizophrenia.
(d) Dementia.

3. What is Semtex?
(a) A holiday.
(b) A museum.
(c) An explosive agent.
(d) A brand of tissues.

4. What does Jason-of-the-Names tell ma about real milkman when he calls her on the phone?
(a) He is missing.
(b) He is dead.
(c) He has been shot.
(d) He has been taken in for questioning.

5. What information does ma demand of middle sister just before she calls out for ingredients to be brought from the "backyard pharmacy" (225)?
(a) What middle sister had done to make someone mad enough to poison her.
(b) Who middle sister had married.
(c) Where the milkman is.
(d) Why middle sister had drunk so much alcohol.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does middle sister feel about the neighbors' comments to ma that she cannot take middle sister to the hospital?

2. Ma tells wee sisters that while she is briefly away from middle sister's side, they need to make sure that middle sister does not engage in what activity?

3. To whom does ma hand over her purse in Chapter 6?

4. How many weeks after real milkman is hurt does middle sister go to the chip shop, where she is then confronted by the community?

5. Who carries tablets girl's sister to his car with the intention of taking her to the hospital?

Short Essay Questions

1. What act does middle sister see as the one that would symbolize her surrender to the milkman?

2. What revelation does ma make about real milkman during one of her breaks from the hospital?

3. How does longest friend's reaction to middle sister's confession surprise middle sister?

4. What three-syllable response does middle sister use in response to any question she is ever asked and why?

5. Who is tablets girl?

6. What does middle sister mean when she says, "My inner world, it seemed, had gone away" (176)?

7. Which character does middle sister soon encounter once she emerges from the chip shop and what reunion does she then watch?

8. What kind of murders are said to be "unfathomable" (237) within the confines of middle sister's community and why are they described in this way?

9. What information about longest friend does middle sister finally reveal to the reader at the end of Chapter 4?

10. Who is ultimately revealed to have killed tablets girl?

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