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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 4-6.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. What happens when William is riding a bike soon after he learns how?
(a) He runs into the Squire's car and puts a dent in it.
(b) He runs off a bridge and nearly drowns.
(c) A lady rides up and falls nearly on top him.
(d) He falls and breaks his wrist.

4. How does Ashenden characterize people in the countryside where he is raised?
(a) Irritable and suspicious.
(b) Rude.
(c) Gracious.
(d) Well read and educated.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Kear believe would hinder his art?

2. How does Driffield appear physically the last time William sees him?

3. What does Amy provide copies of to William?

4. Who is Miss Fellows?

5. What does Ashenden wonder as he and Kear are having lunch?

(see the answer key)

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