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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. Where does Ruby find her mother during the reception?
(a) Watching television in the lounge.
(b) On the dance floor.
(c) Behind the building on the steps.
(d) In the ladies' room.

2. What does Patricia discover she is allergic to?
(a) Crabmeat.
(b) Eggs.
(c) Peanuts.
(d) Shrimp.

3. What does Lucy-Vida confess to Ruby?
(a) She is pregnant.
(b) She snuck a glass of champagne.
(c) She stole the dress she's wearing.
(d) She misses Auntie Babs.

4. What does Patricia tell Ruby to tell George is wrong with her?
(a) A headache.
(b) A toothache.
(c) A fever.
(d) She has her period.

5. Where does Ruby hide after taking the bottle of pills?
(a) Her bed.
(b) The bathtub.
(c) The airing cupboard.
(d) Her mother's closet.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where do the Lennoxes and Ropers go on their holiday in 1964?

2. What religion did Alice convert to during World War I after a vision?

3. Who saw Alice Barker leave with Jean-Paul Armand?

4. What does Patricia say she'd like to be, after Howard announces his intention to be an accountant?

5. What usually hangs from the Perspex canopy in D for Dog that is forgotten on the flight detailed in Footnote (xiv)?

Short Essay Questions

1. What happens at the Chinese restaurant?

2. How does George die?

3. How does the fight at the wedding begin?

4. What happens on Mothering Sunday?

5. Why does Tom usually visit his sisters without his wife?

6. What happens to Rags during Chapter Nine?

7. How does Ruby discover she had a twin sister?

8. How does Pearl die?

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

10. What is Ruby's "reward" for her morning minding the pet Shop by herself?

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