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

2. Why does Ted teach William to ride a bicycle?
(a) William's uncle requests it of Ted.
(b) William seems not to be able to teach himself.
(c) Ted is trying to ingratiate himself with William's aunt.
(d) Ted feels sorry for William.

3. How long has Ashenden known Kear?
(a) He's never met him.
(b) 3 years.
(c) 20 years.
(d) 1 year.

4. About what does Kear seem to have no qualms?
(a) Plagiarism.
(b) Abandoning those whose usefulness he has exhausted.
(c) Publishing poor fiction.
(d) Taking money for trash.

5. What does William use to interpret between the lines of what he learns about Ted and Rosie?
(a) Novels that he has read.
(b) Nothing; the history is pretty clear.
(c) His uncle's statements.
(d) His own mother's history.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Ashenden first think of Driffield?

2. What does Roy want when he calls William?

3. Where did William once meet Amy?

4. Who is Miss Fellows?

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

(see the answer key)

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