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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. At what location do "proper couples" (167) in the community often meet before spending time together?
(a) Ten-minute area.
(b) One of the no-go areas.
(c) City Hall.
(d) The cathedral.

2. 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) Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead.
(c) The Glass Menagerie.
(d) Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf.

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

4. On which day of the week had tablets girl always poisoned people, prior to her more frequent poisonings?
(a) Monday.
(b) Friday.
(c) Saturday.
(d) Wednesday.

5. When tablet girl poisons her family member, she had been having a delusion that the family member had constituted what kind of "aspect of herself" (219)?
(a) Unacceptable.
(b) Shiny.
(c) Irresponsible.
(d) Loathsome.

Short Answer Questions

1. What type of establishment is the location referred to by the community as "the usual place" (169)?

2. How many months after the meeting between middle sister and longest friend at the drinking-club does middle sister attend longest friend's wedding?

3. What element of maybe-boyfriend's body does middle sister describe as having been "the best, the most, the absolute of lovely" (167) before the milkman ruined her perspective?

4. On how many previous occasions had ma handed over her purse to someone else?

5. Middle sister protests inwardly when longest friend tells middle sister that she has fallen into what "zone" (208)?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

4. What major revelation about the community's view of middle sister does longest friend reveal during their meeting?

5. What is the symbolism of the "tenner" (220) in the novel?

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

7. 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?

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

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

10. What does Semtex symbolize within the novel?

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