Print
Word
PDF
|
| Name: _________________________ | Period: ___________________ |
This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.
Short Answer Questions
1. Middle sister has known longest friend since they met at what type of school?
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 is Semtex?
4. What information does ma demand of middle sister just before she calls out for ingredients to be brought from the "backyard pharmacy" (225)?
5. Into what substance does tablets girl dose her victims with poison?
Short Essay Questions
1. What significant event happens in a chip shop shortly after real milkman is shot?
2. Describe an instance when Burns makes a point about how polarization often leads to exclusion.
3. What is the ultimate fate of longest friend?
4. How does longest friend's reaction to middle sister's confession surprise middle sister?
5. Who is tablets girl?
6. Who is ultimately revealed to have killed tablets girl?
7. Why do the renouncers-of-the-state come to middle sister's family's door in Chapter 5?
8. What major revelation about the community's view of middle sister does longest friend reveal during their meeting?
9. Which group had reportedly failed in their attempts to save tablets girl's life prior to her demise?
10. What change occurs in middle sister's feelings for maybe-boyfriend after the milkman begins to stalk her?
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
How does Burns use the first person point of view to tell the story of Milkman and in what way does this choice serve the purposes of the text? Discuss how Burns’s choice of point of view helps to advance the treatment of at least three particular themes within the text.
Essay Topic 3
Could Milkman be classified as a coming-of-age story? Why or why not?
|
This section contains 1,231 words (approx. 5 pages at 300 words per page) |
|
