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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. What does Christine always want to pretend to be in her games with Ruby?
(a) Princesses.
(b) Movie stars.
(c) Horses.
(d) Cats.

2. What startling sight does Ruby see out the car window as they leave the Scottish farmhouse?
(a) A huge stag.
(b) Gillian's ghost.
(c) A bagpiper.
(d) A bear.

3. What kind of dog is Dolores?
(a) Cocker spaniel.
(b) Great Dane.
(c) Chihuahua.
(d) Scottish terrier.

4. What is Bunty's boyfriend's occupation?
(a) Butcher.
(b) Plumbing supplies.
(c) Hotel manager.
(d) Policeman.

5. What is the name of the nursing home Bunty enters?
(a) Forest Grove.
(b) Silverleas.
(c) Maplewood.
(d) Leisure World.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is Sister Blake's real name?

2. Which of these foods is not part of the Scottish holiday breakfast?

3. What does Ruby wrap in brown paper while her parents are out of the shop?

4. Why do Ruby's knees begin to hurt?

5. What does Lily bring back from the fair for Nell?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Ruby do for a living?

2. What is the basic tenet of Ruby's Lost Property Cupboard theory of the afterlife?

3. What does the Lennox-Roper group do at the Bottomless Loch?

4. How does George die?

5. How does Ruby find her mother when she returns to York in 1992?

6. What does Bunty come into the shop with at the beginning of Chapter Ten?

7. What happens on Shrove Tuesday?

8. What happens on Mothering Sunday?

9. How does Pearl die?

10. How do Kathleen and Ruby spend the summer after finishing high school?

(see the answer keys)

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