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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. Whose death is revealed at the end of Chapter 4?
(a) Longest friend's.
(b) First brother-in-law's.
(c) Maybe-boyfriend's.
(d) Eldest sister's.

2. Longest friend reveals that which character had been the source of the original rumors about middle sister?
(a) Eldest sister.
(b) Real milkman.
(c) Ma.
(d) First brother-in-law.

3. What length of time is said to have passed between middle sister's first encounter with the milkman and her meeting at the bar with longest friend?
(a) Years.
(b) Months.
(c) Days.
(d) Weeks.

4. Who carries tablets girl's sister to his car with the intention of taking her to the hospital?
(a) First brother-in-law.
(b) Third brother.
(c) Da.
(d) Maybe-boyfriend.

5. How many months after the meeting between middle sister and longest friend at the drinking-club does middle sister attend longest friend's wedding?
(a) 6.
(b) 4.
(c) 9.
(d) 12.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is Semtex?

2. When tablet girl poisons her family member, she had been having a delusion that the family member had constituted what kind of "aspect of herself" (219)?

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. In what kind of establishment does middle sister have a contentious altercation with members of her community?

5. Middle sister often pleads with maybe-boyfriend not to take what action?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does longest friend's reaction to middle sister's confession surprise middle sister?

2. Which character does middle sister soon encounter once she emerges from the chip shop and what reunion does she then watch?

3. What does Semtex symbolize within the novel?

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

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

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

7. Discuss a particular allusion Burns uses to allude to another literary work associated with the theme of depression.

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

9. Describe an instance when Burns makes a point about how polarization often leads to exclusion.

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

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