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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. What kind of flowers do Patricia and Ruby leave for Pearl?

2. What color is the ensemble that Bunty buys for Ted and Sandra's wedding?

3. What is the subject of the book Ruby gets on their daytrip to Glencoe?

4. Who has been staying with Bunty while Ruby makes her way home in Chapter Thirteen?

5. What do George and Bunty get Ted and Sandra as a wedding gift?

Short Essay Questions

1. What prompts Ruby's decision to leave Gian-Carlo?

2. What does Ruby witness on Easter Sunday?

3. What memory of Lawrence's is revealed in Footnote (xii)?

4. What happens on Mothering Sunday?

5. What is the reaction Patricia and Ruby have to seeing Gillian's headstone?

6. How does George die?

7. Describe Patricia as she is in 1964.

8. What happens on Shrove Tuesday?

9. What does Ruby do for a living?

10. Why did the crew of D for Dog have a bad feeling about their final flight?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Discuss Ruby's Lost Property Cupboard theory of the afterlife.

Essay Topic 2

How does Atkinson use time to create her plot: is it strictly linear? How is it manipulated to her advantage? How does this use of time shape characters?

Essay Topic 3

Discuss the significance of two of these family heirlooms: the silver locket, the clock, the rabbit's foot, the photographs.

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