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

2. How did Alice die?
(a) In a car accident.
(b) Pneumonia.
(c) In a bombing raid.
(d) Heart attack.

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

4. What does Patricia say she'd like to be, after Howard announces his intention to be an accountant?
(a) A mother.
(b) A teacher.
(c) A music promoter.
(d) Happy.

5. What part of Tom is injured by the Zeppelin attack?
(a) His knee.
(b) His ear.
(c) His foot.
(d) His hand.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What is Ruby's diagnosis?

3. With whom do the Lennoxes stay right after the fire?

4. What new band does Patricia discover in the summer of 1963?

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

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

4. What do Ruby and Patricia find at the old Shop?

5. Describe Patricia as she is in 1964.

6. How does Pearl die?

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

8. What happens on Shrove Tuesday?

9. How does the fight at the wedding begin?

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

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