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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.
Short Answer Questions
1. What activity does middle sister assert in Chapter 2 that she will never give up?
2. How many sunsets must French teacher's students write about for homework after their discussion?
3. From what country is the flag adorning the car part awarded to maybe-boyfriend?
4. In what activity does middle sister like to engage while she is walking?
5. Middle sister says that "those rare, baffling, radiant type of people" (88) referred to as shiny throughout the text had first been brought to her attention by a viewing of which Hitchcock film?
Short Essay Questions
1. Which member of middle sister's family does she despise and why?
2. For what reason does the real milkman bring up the subject of wee sisters?
3. What does maybe-boyfriend suspect about middle sister's reasons for never meeting him in her own neighborhood?
4. What evidence does middle sister provide for her claim that third brother-in-law should have been designated as a "beyond-the-pale" (41) by now, but that he has not?
5. Which elements of middle sister's second interaction with the milkman make her feel relatively safe?
6. What event convinces middle sister that the tactics she has been using to ward off the milkman are not working?
7. What is the symbolism of the British tabloids and newspapers?
8. What contrast does middle sister point out between da's level of openness in life and his level of openness in death?
9. Describe an instance when sound is used to underscore a particular theme within Chapter 1.
10. What horrific and significant event had occurred when middle sister was nine years old?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Would Burns’s novel Milkman be classified as a dystopian novel? Why or why not?
Essay Topic 2
Discuss Burns's treatment of truth, lies, and hypocrisy within the text of Milkman.
Essay Topic 3
Choose an object from Milkman, such as the white van, the Bentley logo, or some other symbolic object and discuss its overall meaning and its connection to themes within the text.
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