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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) The zoo.
(b) To see Stonehenge.
(c) A Chinese restaurant.
(d) For high tea at Harrod's.

2. What relative has died?
(a) Rose.
(b) Auntie Eliza.
(c) Uncle Bill.
(d) Uncle Ted.

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

4. Which of these is not part of the picnic lunches packed for them at the farmhouse?
(a) Bananas.
(b) Mint Yo-Yos.
(c) Shepherd's Pie.
(d) Pickles.

5. What does Patricia tell Ruby to tell George is wrong with her?
(a) A headache.
(b) She has her period.
(c) A fever.
(d) A toothache.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Patricia discover she is allergic to?

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

3. Who has been staying with Bunty while Ruby makes her way home in Chapter Thirteen?

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

5. For what do Bunty and Ruby spend several days shopping?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

5. What does Ruby witness on Easter Sunday?

6. What happens to Rags during Chapter Nine?

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

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

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

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

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