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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. Whose death is revealed at the end of Chapter 4?
2. Middle sister has known longest friend since they met at what type of school?
3. How many hours after she goes to bed does middle sister wake up with "unbelievable stomach pains" (214) as described at the start of Chapter 5?
4. How old is tablets girl, according to middle sister?
5. Which "shiny" member of tablets girl's family does she poison, permanently affecting her victim's "health and eyesight" (217)?
Short Essay Questions
1. What does middle sister mean when she says, "My inner world, it seemed, had gone away" (176)?
2. Why do the renouncers-of-the-state come to middle sister's family's door in Chapter 5?
3. What is the symbolism of the "tenner" (220) in the novel?
4. What three-syllable response does middle sister use in response to any question she is ever asked and why?
5. Describe an instance when Burns makes a point about how polarization often leads to exclusion.
6. What information about longest friend does middle sister finally reveal to the reader at the end of Chapter 4?
7. Who is tablets girl?
8. What significant event happens in a chip shop shortly after real milkman is shot?
9. What change occurs in middle sister's feelings for maybe-boyfriend after the milkman begins to stalk her?
10. For what reason does the incident in the chip shop happen, according to middle sister?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
What messages does Burns send to the audience about the theme of isolation?
Essay Topic 2
Analyze the interplay between the resolution of Milkman and one of the novel's main messages. How does Burns make connections between these elements and how does their juxtaposition help them get across one main message of the novel?
Essay Topic 3
Discuss Burns’s use of the motif of sound within the novel entitled Milkman.
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