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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 color is the ensemble that Bunty buys for Ted and Sandra's wedding?
(a) Chocolate brown.
(b) Sky blue.
(c) Pea green.
(d) Magenta.

2. How is the Shop heated?
(a) Coal stoves.
(b) Wood fires.
(c) Paraffin heaters.
(d) Oil heat.

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

4. What animal does Bunty think Jesus would be?
(a) A lamb.
(b) A puppy.
(c) A rabbit.
(d) A kitten.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What sport does Patricia play at school?

2. What does Lily bring back from the fair for Nell?

3. Why does Christine need an ambulance?

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

5. What is Sister Blake's real name?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Ruby witness on Easter Sunday?

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

3. Describe Patricia as she is in 1964.

4. What is the reaction Patricia and Ruby have to seeing Gillian's headstone?

5. What happens on Mothering Sunday?

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. What does Ruby do for a living?

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

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

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