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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why can't Roy use William's memories of singing at Ted's home?
(a) Amy won't allow it.
(b) Because of the type of songs they sang.
(c) Roy thinks William remembers incorrectly.
(d) Because he is interested in writing not singing.

2. What does Amy provide copies of to William?
(a) Edward Driffield's letters.
(b) A check for 1000 pounds.
(c) The original manuscript of a book that has a character based upon William.
(d) A check for 100 pounds.

3. What does William say Ted was interested in?
(a) Mystery.
(b) Architecture and farming.
(c) The genetics of plants.
(d) Evolution.

4. How does Rosie treat William?
(a) Like a pest.
(b) Like a grownup.
(c) Like a child.
(d) Like her brother.

5. What are the Curate and Kemp urging Ted to do?
(a) Write a book about Blackstable.
(b) Write a book about Christ.
(c) Sing and join in the chorus.
(d) Come to church on Christmas eve.

6. Who does Galloway mention?
(a) William.
(b) Mrs. Greencourt.
(c) Roy Kear.
(d) Ted.

7. What does Amy write to William?
(a) She wants him rather than Kear to write about Edward.
(b) She invites him to spend some time at her home.
(c) She wants to know what her father was like as a young man.
(d) She wants her father-in-law's letters.

8. What does William think is the reason Rosie sees Kemp?
(a) She is so innocent.
(b) She likes Kemp's son and is trying to get close to him.
(c) He is holding some evil spell over her.
(d) She is very poor.

9. Whose home does William visit unannounced at Christmas?
(a) Mary-Ann.
(b) His older sister.
(c) The Driffields.
(d) Roy Kear.

10. To whom does The Literary Supplement of the Times compare Ted at his death?
(a) William Styron.
(b) Jeremy Taylor.
(c) Samuel Richardson.
(d) James Joyce.

11. What does the young William sometimes wonder about?
(a) If Rosie is happy.
(b) If he will be a writer like Ted.
(c) Why the Driffields bother with an youth.
(d) If his uncle and aunt have ever done the things Rosie and Ted do.

12. What does Ashenden declare about Driffield's novels?
(a) They are complex and intriquing.
(b) He does not comment.
(c) They are mostly ideas from other authors.
(d) They are boring.

13. About what part of Ashenden's life does he reminisce?
(a) 3 years earlier.
(b) 20 years earlier.
(c) When he was just a toddler.
(d) 40 years earlier.

14. Who is Mrs. Encombe?
(a) The vicar's sister.
(b) Blackstable's "New Woman."
(c) The vicar's wife's best friend.
(d) William's aunt.

15. From whom does Ashenden ignore telephone messages?
(a) His fiance.
(b) Alroy Kear.
(c) His landlady.
(d) His mother.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is Kear free of?

2. To what of Shakespeare's aspects are Ted compared?

3. What does Roy wonder about Rosie?

4. Who tells William of the Driffield's background?

5. What does William agree to jot down?

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