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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 are Patricia's last words to Ruby about?

2. What usually hangs from the Perspex canopy in D for Dog that is forgotten on the flight detailed in Footnote (xiv)?

3. What relative has died?

4. Where do Kathleen and Ruby spend the summer after high school?

5. What kind of business do Ruby and Gian-Carlo run?

Short Essay Questions

1. Describe Patricia as she is in 1964.

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

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

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

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

6. How does George die?

7. How does the fight at the wedding begin?

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

9. How does Pearl die?

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

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

Essay Topic 2

How does Atkinson use time to create her plot: is it strictly linear? How is it manipulated to her advantage? How does this use of time shape characters?

Essay Topic 3

How does the phrase "Your sister says not to worry" recur throughout the novel and what is its significance?

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