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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. How old was maybe-boyfriend when his parents left home to pursue full-time their ballroom-dancing careers?
2. Middle sister says that ma has been tormenting her about her lack of a husband since which one of her birthdays?
3. What is the only event that ever causes maybe-boyfriend to become angry and combative?
4. Middle sister notes that French teacher has "an unnerving amount of" (69) what?
5. While walking through the ten-minute area on her way back from French class, middle sister finds the head of what kind of animal?
Short Essay Questions
1. Which answers are said to be "acceptable" (72) when one is asked the color of the sky in middle sister's society?
2. Describe an instance when sound is used to underscore a particular theme within Chapter 1.
3. What are the real reasons for middle sister's reluctance to meet maybe-boyfriend in her own neighborhood?
4. For what reason does the real milkman bring up the subject of wee sisters?
5. Who is the milkman?
6. What contrast does middle sister point out between da's level of openness in life and his level of openness in death?
7. Which character does middle sister suspect of having started a rumor about herself and an older man?
8. For what reason does middle sister discuss the activities that go on in the park where she likes to go for runs?
9. How do the students in middle sister's class react to French teacher's comments about the sky and which elements of their society have caused them to instinctively feel this way?
10. What is the ten-minute-area?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Discuss Burns's treatment of truth, lies, and hypocrisy within the text of Milkman.
Essay Topic 2
How are the themes of eccentricity and conformity depicted within Burns’s Milkman?
Essay Topic 3
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.
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