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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 job do Ruby and Kathleen have during the summer after high school?

2. What nationality is the male owner of the farmhouse where the Lennoxes and Ropers stay?

3. For what do Bunty and Ruby spend several days shopping?

4. Who announces an engagement at Easter 1963?

5. What are Patricia's last words to Ruby about?

Short Essay Questions

1. What happens at the Chinese restaurant?

2. Why does Tom laugh when his hand is blown off?

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. Describe Patricia's "new" life.

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

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

8. How does Pearl die?

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

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

How does the author's use of foreshadowing throughout this novel enhance or detract from the story? Be specific.

Essay Topic 2

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

Essay Topic 3

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

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