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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. What new band does Patricia discover in the summer of 1963?
(a) The Moody Blues.
(b) The Who.
(c) The Rolling Stones.
(d) The Kinks.

2. Who wakes Ruby the night of the fire?
(a) Nell.
(b) Bunty.
(c) George.
(d) Patricia.

3. What does Sandra's mother call Ted's family?
(a) Riff-raff.
(b) Social climbers.
(c) Useless.
(d) White trash.

4. What religion did Alice convert to during World War I after a vision?
(a) Catholicism.
(b) Judaism.
(c) Buddhism.
(d) Islam.

5. Who announces an engagement at Easter 1963?
(a) Cousin Adrian.
(b) Patricia.
(c) Lucy-Vida.
(d) Uncle Ted.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is Patricia's husband's occupation?

2. How did Alice die?

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

4. Where is Ruby planning to go to university?

5. For whom does Ruby hold a plate of food at the wedding reception?

Short Essay Questions

1. What happens to Rags during Chapter Nine?

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

3. What does Ruby witness on Easter Sunday?

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

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

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

7. What happens on Shrove Tuesday?

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

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

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

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