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

2. Who saw Alice Barker leave with Jean-Paul Armand?
(a) Lawrence.
(b) Ada.
(c) Tom.
(d) Albert.

3. What new band does Patricia discover in the summer of 1963?
(a) The Rolling Stones.
(b) The Moody Blues.
(c) The Who.
(d) The Kinks.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What does Lucy-Vida confess to Ruby?

3. Where does George take his family in August, 1963?

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

5. Where has Patricia settled?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why did the crew of D for Dog have a bad feeling about their final flight?

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

3. What happens to Rags during Chapter Nine?

4. What happens at the Chinese restaurant?

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

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

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

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

9. What does Ruby witness on Easter Sunday?

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

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