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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 does George criticize at the meal?

2. Who is Alice's oldest child?

3. What kind of store does the narrator's family own?

4. What is the narrator's mother's given name?

5. What does Gillian swallow at her grandmother's?

Short Essay Questions

1. How is Ruby received when she returns home?

2. How was Jack killed?

3. Describe Mrs. Carter.

4. What kind of a man is Walter the butcher?

5. How do the girls spend the first day of Bunty's disappearance?

6. Why does Nell keep the children from leaving for the train station?

7. Why is Bunty "torn" at the beginning of Chapter Three?

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

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

10. How are the babies fed?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

What is the meaning of a "bottom drawer"?

Essay Topic 2

Choose at least two of the main conflicts of "Behind the Scenes at the Museum" and discuss their development through the novel. Which characters are involved? How are they resolved? What commentary is Atkinson making through them?

Essay Topic 3

How does Atkinson use secrets to develop her story? What commentary is she making?

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