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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 is on the calendar Auntie Gladys gave to Ruby for Christmas?
(a) Beach scenes.
(b) Pictures of kittens and puppies.
(c) The Beatles.
(d) Scenes from "Ye Olde England."

2. What game does Ruby play by herself the evening before the fire?
(a) Monopoly.
(b) Rummy.
(c) Scrabble.
(d) Checkers.

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

4. What apprenticeship has Adrian started in the spring of 1963?
(a) Cooking.
(b) Hairdressing.
(c) Electrical work.
(d) Tailoring.

5. What usually hangs from the Perspex canopy in D for Dog that is forgotten on the flight detailed in Footnote (xiv)?
(a) A rosary.
(b) An American flag.
(c) A St. Christopher medal.
(d) Their dogtags.

Short Answer Questions

1. What part of Edmund is wounded?

2. What does Christine always want to pretend to be in her games with Ruby?

3. How did Alice die?

4. Who screams during the boat ride in Oban Bay?

5. Where does Lillian first live after leaving England?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does the fight at the wedding begin?

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

3. What happens on Shrove Tuesday?

4. How does George die?

5. Why does Tom laugh when his hand is blown off?

6. What happens on Mothering Sunday?

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

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

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

10. What happens to Rags during Chapter Nine?

(see the answer keys)

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