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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 George take his family in August, 1963?
(a) A Chinese restaurant.
(b) For high tea at Harrod's.
(c) The zoo.
(d) To see Stonehenge.

2. What are Patricia's last words to Ruby about?
(a) Rags.
(b) Auntie Doreen.
(c) Gillian.
(d) Bunty.

3. What business does George open when the Shop is remodeled?
(a) Pets.
(b) Wine.
(c) Books.
(d) Medical Supplies.

4. What is the last name Lillian adopts after the war?
(a) Valentine.
(b) Diamond.
(c) Starr.
(d) Darling.

5. Who does not go see a film with Ruby in the summer of 1963?
(a) Patricia.
(b) Howard.
(c) Christine.
(d) Kathleen.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What nationality is the male owner of the farmhouse where the Lennoxes and Ropers stay?

3. What relative has died?

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

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

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

4. Describe Patricia's "new" life.

5. What does Ruby witness on Easter Sunday?

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

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

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

9. Why does Bunty abandon the ironing so suddenly the night of the fire?

10. What happens to Rags during Chapter Nine?

(see the answer keys)

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