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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 new band does Patricia discover in the summer of 1963?

2. What is the name of Bunty's boyfriend?

3. What is Bunty's boyfriend's occupation?

4. What historical figure does Ruby compare Bunty to?

5. What startling sight does Ruby see out the car window as they leave the Scottish farmhouse?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What does Ruby witness on Easter Sunday?

3. What is Ruby's "reward" for her morning minding the pet Shop by herself?

4. What happens on Shrove Tuesday?

5. What does Bunty come into the shop with at the beginning of Chapter Ten?

6. How does George die?

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

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

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

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Choose at least two of the main conflicts of "Behind the Scenes at the Museum" and discuss their development through the novel. Which characters are involved? How are they resolved? What commentary is Atkinson making through them?

Essay Topic 2

What is the meaning of a "bottom drawer"?

Essay Topic 3

How does the phrase "Your sister says not to worry" recur throughout the novel and what is its significance?

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