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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 7-10.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What does Ashenden say about the first Mrs. Driffield?
(a) That she was not an awful woman.
(b) That she writes most of Driffield's material.
(c) That she was misunderstood.
(d) That she was a real witch.

3. How does Ted Driffield act the last time William saw him?
(a) Jovial.
(b) Depressed.
(c) The same as always.
(d) As if he does not know William.

4. What does Ashenden wonder as he and Kear are having lunch?
(a) Why the lunch was going on two hours now.
(b) What Kear wants of Ashenden .
(c) How Kear can be so trite.
(d) How Ashenden was silly enough to agree to this meeting.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Ted give William?

2. What nationality does Ashenden's aunt have?

3. What does the young William sometimes wonder about?

4. What do some of the people at Mrs. Greencourt's tea party believe about literature?

5. When is William embarrassed?

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