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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) A bagpiper.
(b) A huge stag.
(c) A bear.
(d) Gillian's ghost.

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

3. What do George and Bunty get Ted and Sandra as a wedding gift?
(a) A vase.
(b) A platter.
(c) Linens.
(d) A china figurine.

4. Where does Lillian meet her husband?
(a) On the train.
(b) In the post office.
(c) In church.
(d) At the theater.

5. What is Patricia's husband's occupation?
(a) Dentist.
(b) Teacher.
(c) Architect.
(d) Attorney.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where does Ruby hide after taking the bottle of pills?

2. What is Kathleen planning to do after high school?

3. What is the subject of the book Ruby gets on their daytrip to Glencoe?

4. How is the Shop heated?

5. With whom do the Lennoxes stay right after the fire?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. Describe Patricia as she is in 1964.

3. What does Ruby do for a living?

4. How does Pearl die?

5. Describe Patricia's "new" life.

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

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

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

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

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

(see the answer keys)

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