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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. What disease do all of the children get the winter Rachel's baby is born?

2. What relation is Alice Barker to Bunty?

3. Which of these is not one of the dogs Jack worked with?

4. Who comes to take Ruby home?

5. How did Percy die?

Short Essay Questions

1. How is Bunty treated at Sunday School after missing the outing?

2. Why does it take some time for Ruby's family to realize Bunty is missing?

3. What happens to Gillian after the pantomime?

4. How does Auntie Doreen win Patricia over?

5. What causes Nell to faint in Footnote (ii)?

6. What "improvements" does Rachel make to the Barker family and home after she arrives to help out?

7. What happens to Ruby in the back yard during the party?

8. Why does Ruby resolve to learn to read while at Auntie Babs'?

9. What made Nell cry on her honeymoon?

10. Who was Bunty's first choice to be her husband?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

How does grief play a role in shaping the characters in this novel? Please use at least three examples.

Essay Topic 2

Kate Atkinson has said that this novel is about cupboards. How is that so?

Essay Topic 3

Discuss Ruby's Lost Property Cupboard theory of the afterlife.

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