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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 objects does middle sister throw onto the ground after she leaves the place where she has just had a contentious encounter with the community?
(a) Rosaries.
(b) Chips.
(c) Magazines.
(d) Cookies.

2. What element of middle sister's personality does longest friend demand that middle sister eradicate?
(a) Her numb affectations.
(b) Her sense of humor.
(c) Her flighty affectations.
(d) Her visible and seething rage.

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

4. 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) Why middle sister had drunk so much alcohol.
(d) Where the milkman is.

5. Tablets girl poisons middle sister just after which character has departed from the table to use the restroom at the bar?
(a) Maybe-boyfriend.
(b) First brother-in-law.
(c) Longest friend.
(d) Third brother-in-law.

Short Answer Questions

1. When middle sister mulls over her meeting with a certain character at the bar, she says that she had expected the discussion to be about what topic?

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

3. How many people in the group of seven men confronting maybe-boyfriend at his house are wearing Halloween masks?

4. Middle sister recalls joining together with which other character in order to warn wee sisters about first brother-in-law?

5. Middle sister has known longest friend since they met at what type of school?

Short Essay Questions

1. What is the ultimate fate of longest friend?

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

3. 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?

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

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

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

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

8. What are middle sister's expectations when she tells longest friend the truth about the milkman?

9. 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)?

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

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