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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 historical figure does Ruby compare Bunty to?

2. Who does not go see a film with Ruby in the summer of 1963?

3. What does Adrian do for a living?

4. Where does Lillian meet her husband?

5. Which of these foods is not part of the Scottish holiday breakfast?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. How does George die?

3. How does the fight at the wedding begin?

4. What memory of Lawrence's is revealed in Footnote (xii)?

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

6. How does Pearl die?

7. What is the basic tenet of Ruby's Lost Property Cupboard theory of the afterlife?

8. Describe Patricia as she is in 1964.

9. What happens at the Chinese restaurant?

10. What is different about the birthday party Ruby has in Chapter Eight?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

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

Essay Topic 2

Discuss Akinson's use of footnotes in "Behind the Scenes at the Museum." How do they contribute to the story? Why do you think she chose to include this information in this way?

Essay Topic 3

How does the title of the novel, "Behind the Scenes at the Museum," represent the text as a whole?

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