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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 is the title of the play from which middle sister reads to wee sisters while their mother is at the hospital?
(a) Equus.
(b) Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf.
(c) The Glass Menagerie.
(d) Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead.

2. Middle sister is shocked to find herself labeled in the same way as which other character?
(a) The milkman.
(b) Real milkman.
(c) Tablets girl's sister.
(d) Tablets girl.

3. What practice of middle sister's does longest friend say she had consistently warned middle sister to stop performing?
(a) Listening to the radio.
(b) Laughing.
(c) Reading while walking.
(d) Making eye contact.

4. What phrase does longest friend use to characterize the reason why she had felt compelled to meet with middle sister?
(a) Weak heart.
(b) Lack of patriotism.
(c) Mental deterioration.
(d) Death wish.

5. In what kind of establishment does middle sister have a contentious altercation with members of her community?
(a) A newspaper stand.
(b) A chip shop.
(c) A church.
(d) A bakery.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does longest friend get word to middle sister that she wants to meet with her?

2. At what location do "proper couples" (167) in the community often meet before spending time together?

3. Which aspect of maybe-boyfriend's latest method of communicating with middle sister in Chapter 6 causes her to recoil?

4. Middle sister states that which character's status of being "wedged between" (188) her and maybe-boyfriend has damaged their relationship?

5. Longest friend reveals that which character had been the source of the original rumors about middle sister?

Short Essay Questions

1. What significant event happens in a chip shop shortly after real milkman is shot?

2. Discuss a particular allusion Burns uses to allude to another literary work associated with the theme of depression.

3. Who is tablets girl?

4. For what reason does the incident in the chip shop happen, according to middle sister?

5. What is ironic about the fact that every time the milkman suddenly appears, he does so "in the manner of some ordinary meeting up" (166)?

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

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

8. Why do the renouncers-of-the-state come to middle sister's family's door in Chapter 5?

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

10. What does Semtex symbolize within the novel?

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