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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Middle sister protests inwardly when longest friend tells middle sister that she has fallen into what "zone" (208)?
(a) Difficult.
(b) Defender.
(c) Shiny.
(d) Renouncer.

2. How does middle sister feel about the neighbors' comments to ma that she cannot take middle sister to the hospital?
(a) She disagrees.
(b) She agrees.
(c) She expresses no opinion to the reader.
(d) She is unconscious at the time.

3. To whom does ma call out when she needs medicine for middle sister to be fetched from the "backyard pharmacy" (225)?
(a) Eldest sister.
(b) Maybe-boyfriend.
(c) Third brother-in-law.
(d) Wee sisters.

4. How many weeks after real milkman is hurt does middle sister go to the chip shop, where she is then confronted by the community?
(a) 1.
(b) 2.
(c) 4.
(d) 3.

5. What does middle sister do in Chapter 6 when a former couple sees each other for the first time in ages?
(a) She walks home.
(b) She turns her back.
(c) She sits down nearby.
(d) She watches.

Short Answer Questions

1. On which day of the week had tablets girl always poisoned people, prior to her more frequent poisonings?

2. When ma returns from the hospital, she tells middle sister that she is in love with which character?

3. To whom does ma hand over her purse in Chapter 6?

4. Whose death is revealed at the end of Chapter 4?

5. How many years after longest friend's wedding does her husband die?

Short Essay Questions

1. What are middle sister's expectations when she tells longest friend the truth about the milkman?

2. What information about longest friend does middle sister finally reveal to the reader at the end of Chapter 4?

3. Why do the renouncers-of-the-state come to middle sister's family's door in Chapter 5?

4. What three-syllable response does middle sister use in response to any question she is ever asked and why?

5. Which group had reportedly failed in their attempts to save tablets girl's life prior to her demise?

6. What is the ultimate fate of longest friend?

7. Who is ultimately revealed to have killed tablets girl?

8. 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)?

9. What does middle sister mean when she says, "My inner world, it seemed, had gone away" (176)?

10. What major revelation about the community's view of middle sister does longest friend reveal during their meeting?

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