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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 Adrian do for a living?

2. Which of these is not part of the picnic lunches packed for them at the farmhouse?

3. What does Ruby wrap in brown paper while her parents are out of the shop?

4. Who dies at the end of 1963?

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

Short Essay Questions

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

2. Describe Patricia's "new" life.

3. How does George die?

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

5. What does the Lennox-Roper group do at the Bottomless Loch?

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

7. What is Ruby's "reward" for her morning minding the pet Shop by herself?

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

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

10. What does Ruby witness on Easter Sunday?

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

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

Essay Topic 3

What are the similarities among the four generations o the women of Ruby's family? How are they portrayed?

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