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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is Kear able to do?
(a) Parley his little talent into a successful writing and speaking career.
(b) Marry the girl everyone else wants to marry in college.
(c) Become an adviser to the Duke of Wellington.
(d) Become a member of the House of Commons.

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

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

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

5. What has Kear never done?
(a) Lied.
(b) Traveled outside England.
(c) Lectured at a prestigious institution.
(d) Married.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why does Ted teach William to ride a bicycle?

2. What does William use to interpret between the lines of what he learns about Ted and Rosie?

3. From whom does Ashenden ignore telephone messages?

4. What does Ashenden declare about Driffield's novels?

5. Why does the person telling William the story of the Driffields say Ted marries Rosie.

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