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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. Who announces an engagement at Easter 1963?
(a) Cousin Adrian.
(b) Uncle Ted.
(c) Patricia.
(d) Lucy-Vida.

2. Who dies at the end of 1963?
(a) Uncle Tom.
(b) Aunie Mabel.
(c) Auntie Babs.
(d) Auntie Betty.

3. Why do Ruby's knees begin to hurt?
(a) She has been praying so much.
(b) She has been playing too much jumprope.
(c) She fell off her bike.
(d) She has been forced to scrub the kitchen floor.

4. Who does not go see a film with Ruby in the summer of 1963?
(a) Patricia.
(b) Kathleen.
(c) Howard.
(d) Christine.

5. What sport does Patricia play at school?
(a) Soccer.
(b) Field hockey.
(c) Softball.
(d) Tennis.

Short Answer Questions

1. What startling sight does Ruby see out the car window as they leave the Scottish farmhouse?

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

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

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

5. What starts the Shop fire?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Ruby witness on Easter Sunday?

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

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

4. What does Ruby do for a living?

5. How does Ruby discover she had a twin sister?

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

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

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

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

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

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