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

2. What nationality is the male owner of the farmhouse where the Lennoxes and Ropers stay?
(a) German.
(b) Irish.
(c) Polish.
(d) Scottish.

3. Which of these foods is not part of the Scottish holiday breakfast?
(a) Porridge.
(b) Baked beans.
(c) Bacon.
(d) Eggs.

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

5. Where do Kathleen and Ruby spend the summer after high school?
(a) London.
(b) Edinburgh.
(c) York.
(d) Dublin.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Albert mention in his postcard that amuses Tom?

2. What does Patricia tell Ruby to tell George is wrong with her?

3. On what does Ruby write the essay for her Eleven Plus exam?

4. What starts the Shop fire?

5. What are Patricia's last words to Ruby about?

Short Essay Questions

1. What is different about the birthday party Ruby has in Chapter Eight?

2. How does George die?

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

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

5. What happens to Rags during Chapter Nine?

6. How did Alice and Jean-Paul Armand get stuck in France longer than originally planned?

7. What happens on Shrove Tuesday?

8. What does Ruby do for a living?

9. What does Ruby witness on Easter Sunday?

10. What happens on Mothering Sunday?

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