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

2. What has Patricia just finished?
(a) Law school.
(b) Veterinary school.
(c) A novel.
(d) Filming a movie.

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What apprenticeship has Adrian started in the spring of 1963?

2. What does Patricia discover she is allergic to?

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

4. What do George and Bunty get Ted and Sandra as a wedding gift?

5. What new band does Patricia discover in the summer of 1963?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

4. How does the fight at the wedding begin?

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

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

7. What happens at the Chinese restaurant?

8. How does Pearl die?

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

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

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