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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 adjective is used to refer to middle sister's younger sisters?
2. What sound does middle sister accuse third brother-in-law of ignoring?
3. After the departure of maybe-boyfriend's parents, the son had "never heard from their parents again, except" (31) through what medium?
4. 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?
5. French teacher tells her students that their "temporary unhingement" (76) as a result of the discussion is a sign of what?
Short Essay Questions
1. What aspects of maybe-boyfriend's life are revealed within Chapters 1 and 2 of the novel?
2. Which answers are said to be "acceptable" (72) when one is asked the color of the sky in middle sister's society?
3. What are the real reasons for middle sister's reluctance to meet maybe-boyfriend in her own neighborhood?
4. What action does middle sister perform "without a shake" for "the first time in ages" (165) when the real milkman drops her off at home and why?
5. Who is the milkman?
6. Which member of middle sister's family does she despise and why?
7. Discuss one quality within French teacher's personality that qualifies her as a "beyond-the-pale," (69) according to middle sister.
8. To what location must middle sister travel in order to attend a French language college class and why is this significant?
9. What is the ten-minute-area?
10. Which character does middle sister suspect of having started a rumor about herself and an older man?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
How is the theme of injustice portrayed within Milkman? Examine Burns's treatment of and messages regarding injustice throughout the work.
Essay Topic 2
Analyze Burns from an Existential perspective. What elements of life does it suggest hold the most meaning and why?
Essay Topic 3
Discuss Burns’s use of the motif of sound within the novel entitled Milkman.
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