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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 kind of dog is Dolores?

2. What strange food did the girls eat at Uncle Tom's the day Pearl died?

3. What does Lily bring back from the fair for Nell?

4. What do George and Bunty get Ted and Sandra as a wedding gift?

5. What is the last name Lillian adopts after the war?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does Ruby discover she had a twin sister?

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

3. What happens at the Chinese restaurant?

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

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

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

7. How does George die?

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

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

10. Describe Patricia as she is in 1964.

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

Discuss Ruby's Lost Property Cupboard theory of the afterlife.

Essay Topic 3

Choose two characters and discuss the effects that living through one (or both) of the World Wars has on him/her.

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