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

2. On what does Ruby write the essay for her Eleven Plus exam?

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

4. How did Alice die?

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

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Ruby witness on Easter Sunday?

2. What happens on Mothering Sunday?

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

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

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

6. How does the fight at the wedding begin?

7. What happens at the Chinese restaurant?

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

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

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

In this novel, there are a lot of seeming coincidences. Choose three of these and discuss their importance to the story and why Atkinson chose to include them.

Essay Topic 2

One of the themes in "Behind the Scenes at the Museum" is the loss of children. Using at least three examples, discuss how Atkinson develops this theme throughout the story and its impact on the characters involved.

Essay Topic 3

Discuss the significance of two of these family heirlooms: the silver locket, the clock, the rabbit's foot, the photographs.

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