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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. To whom does ma call out when she needs medicine for middle sister to be fetched from the "backyard pharmacy" (225)?
2. What objects does middle sister throw onto the ground after she leaves the place where she has just had a contentious encounter with the community?
3. The character middle sister sees after the dogs eat the chips is afflicted with which malady or disability?
4. When longest friend says she has to bring up a second one of middle sister's transgressive practices, she brings up middle sister's possession of what object?
5. The gossip centered around middle sister and the milkman names which location as their favorite place to meet?
Short Essay Questions
1. What act does middle sister see as the one that would symbolize her surrender to the milkman?
2. Which character does middle sister soon encounter once she emerges from the chip shop and what reunion does she then watch?
3. What information about longest friend does middle sister finally reveal to the reader at the end of Chapter 4?
4. What are middle sister's expectations when she tells longest friend the truth about the milkman?
5. Which group had reportedly failed in their attempts to save tablets girl's life prior to her demise?
6. Who is ultimately revealed to have killed tablets girl?
7. What is ironic about the fact that every time the milkman suddenly appears, he does so "in the manner of some ordinary meeting up" (166)?
8. What does middle sister mean when she says, "My inner world, it seemed, had gone away" (176)?
9. What significant event happens in a chip shop shortly after real milkman is shot?
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
Discuss Burns’s use of metaphor, simile, imagery, and other literary devices as a means to send particular thematic messages within the narrative of Milkman.
Essay Topic 3
How are the topics of romantic relationships, love, and sex treated within the novel Milkman and how does their treatment relate to the novel's depicted messages?
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