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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.
Multiple Choice Questions
1. How long has Ashenden known Kear?
(a) 20 years.
(b) 3 years.
(c) He's never met him.
(d) 1 year.
2. Where did William once meet Amy?
(a) At a ball given by Lady Ashmore.
(b) In a bookstore as Driffield is signing books.
(c) At a luncheon given by Lady Hodmarsh.
(d) William has never met her.
3. What do some at the tea party believe of Dickens?
(a) He is boring.
(b) He write too long of descriptions.
(c) He is brillant.
(d) He is too coarse.
4. What does William think is the reason Rosie sees Kemp?
(a) She likes Kemp's son and is trying to get close to him.
(b) She is very poor.
(c) She is so innocent.
(d) He is holding some evil spell over her.
5. How does Rosie treat William?
(a) Like a pest.
(b) Like a child.
(c) Like her brother.
(d) Like a grownup.
6. What does Amy provide copies of to William?
(a) A check for 100 pounds.
(b) A check for 1000 pounds.
(c) The original manuscript of a book that has a character based upon William.
(d) Edward Driffield's letters.
7. What happens when William is riding a bike soon after he learns how?
(a) He falls and breaks his wrist.
(b) He runs into the Squire's car and puts a dent in it.
(c) He runs off a bridge and nearly drowns.
(d) A lady rides up and falls nearly on top him.
8. What does William fail to do when Ted gives him money?
(a) Write a thank you note.
(b) Give half to his uncle.
(c) Tithe 10 percent.
(d) Give his brother half.
9. What surprises William?
(a) That Mary-Ann is actually friends with Rosie.
(b) That Rosie prefers to socialize with the working class.
(c) That William's uncle no longer interferes in Williams friendship with Ted and Rosie.
(d) That Ted and Rosie recall their working-class past fondly.
10. To whom does The Literary Supplement of the Times compare Ted at his death?
(a) Jeremy Taylor.
(b) William Styron.
(c) James Joyce.
(d) Samuel Richardson.
11. How does Ashenden characterize Kear's early novels?
(a) Repugnant.
(b) Trash.
(c) Exquisitely beautiful.
(d) Tasteful.
12. 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.
13. What does Ashenden say about the first Mrs. Driffield?
(a) That she was not an awful woman.
(b) That she was a real witch.
(c) That she was misunderstood.
(d) That she writes most of Driffield's material.
14. At what age is Ashenden when he first meets Driffield?
(a) 18.
(b) 3.
(c) 10.
(d) 15.
15. What is Ted considered at age 80?
(a) Boring.
(b) Washed out.
(c) Untouchable.
(d) The Grand Old Man of English Letters.
Short Answer Questions
1. Who is Amy Driffield?
2. What does Ted give William?
3. Who does William see in the dark while Rosie is having tea with Mary-Ann?
4. What does Ashenden declare about Driffield's novels?
5. Who is Miss Fellows?
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