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

2. Who tells William of the Driffield's background?
(a) William's aunt.
(b) A maid named Mary-Ann.
(c) William's uncle.
(d) William's teacher.

3. At what is Ted best depicting?
(a) The noble class.
(b) Young men.
(c) The military.
(d) The working class.

4. What does Lady Hodmarsh call Amy?
(a) A money grabber.
(b) A hoyden.
(c) A devoted daughter.
(d) A sacrificial caregiver.

5. How does Ashenden characterize Kear's early novels?
(a) Trash.
(b) Exquisitely beautiful.
(c) Tasteful.
(d) Repugnant.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Ted teach William?

2. What does the Vicar announce at dinner?

3. What does the young William sometimes wonder about?

4. What does Amy have to force Ted to do?

5. What does William do when he sneaks out to the Driffields?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does William initially meet Rosie?

2. How does Ted know the Kemp family and what does he think of them?

3. Describe Mary-Ann.

4. What does Lady Hodmarsh say about Amy Driffield?

5. Describe Ted Driffield.

6. How does Ashenden characterize Alroy Kear's writing career?

7. Why does Roy want William's assistance in writing Ted's biograph and what is Roy's purpose in doing so?

8. Briefly describe William's interaction with Ted and Rosie when he is a youth.

9. What does William think about Ted's depiction of the high-born and others comparing Ted s to Shakespeare?

10. What is fashionable to do when William is a young man?

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