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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why does Christine need an ambulance?
(a) A severe burn.
(b) A seizure.
(c) A deep cut.
(d) Appendicitis.

2. For whom does Ruby hold a plate of food at the wedding reception?
(a) Auntie Eliza.
(b) Uncle Bill.
(c) Bunty.
(d) Sandra.

3. Which of these foods is not part of the Scottish holiday breakfast?
(a) Bacon.
(b) Eggs.
(c) Baked beans.
(d) Porridge.

4. What did Ruby take from her mother's closet?
(a) Patricia's panda bear.
(b) The old rabbit's foot.
(c) The silver locket.
(d) Pearl's birth certificate.

5. What startling sight does Ruby see out the car window as they leave the Scottish farmhouse?
(a) A bear.
(b) Gillian's ghost.
(c) A bagpiper.
(d) A huge stag.

Short Answer Questions

1. What part of Edmund is wounded?

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

3. What part of Tom is injured by the Zeppelin attack?

4. What relative has died?

5. What animal does Bunty think Jesus would be?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. Describe Patricia's "new" life.

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

4. What happens on Mothering Sunday?

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

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

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

8. What happens on Shrove Tuesday?

9. How does Pearl die?

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

(see the answer keys)

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