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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 a member of the House of Commons.
(d) Become an adviser to the Duke of Wellington.

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

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

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

5. Why is the man called Lord George so named?
(a) Because he carries on with grand manners.
(b) No reason is given.
(c) Because that is his official title.
(d) Because he looks a lot like King George.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Amy write to William?

2. What does Amy provide copies of to William?

3. Who tells William of the Driffield's background?

4. What does William's uncle forbid?

5. What happens when William is riding a bike soon after he learns how?

(see the answer key)

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