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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 do they have for lunch?
(a) Grilled chicken sandwiches.
(b) Fish and chips.
(c) Tomato soup.
(d) Steak and kidney pie.

2. 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.

3. What historical figure does Ruby compare Bunty to?
(a) Christopher Columbus.
(b) Joan of Arc.
(c) Queen Elizabeth I.
(d) Napoleon.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Pearl die?

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

3. What obstacle presents itself on the roads in Scotland?

4. What is Ruby's diagnosis?

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

Short Essay Questions

1. What happens on Shrove Tuesday?

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

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

4. What does Ruby do for a living?

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

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

7. How does Pearl die?

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

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

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

(see the answer keys)

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