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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. Which color does Ruby say is "the color of memory"?

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

3. Who has recently divorced his/her spouse?

4. What kind of dog is Dolores?

5. What does Patricia discover she is allergic to?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What happens to Rags during Chapter Nine?

3. Why does Tom usually visit his sisters without his wife?

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

5. How does the fight at the wedding begin?

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

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

8. What happens at the Chinese restaurant?

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

10. What happens on Mothering Sunday?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

What are the similarities among the four generations o the women of Ruby's family? How are they portrayed?

Essay Topic 2

What is the meaning of a "bottom drawer"?

Essay Topic 3

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

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