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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What do some at the tea party believe of Dickens?
(a) He is too coarse.
(b) He is boring.
(c) He is brillant.
(d) He write too long of descriptions.

2. What do some of the people at Mrs. Greencourt's tea party believe about literature?
(a) It should be uplifting to the soul and in praise of God.
(b) They do not really discuss literature.
(c) It should reflect life in all its various aspects, both good and bad.
(d) It ought not to deal with the vicious aspects of society.

3. Who does William see in the dark while Rosie is having tea with Mary-Ann?
(a) His uncle.
(b) No one.
(c) Kemp.
(d) Ted.

4. What does William agree to jot down?
(a) Ted's likes and dislikes.
(b) Some reminiscences.
(c) What he remembers about Kemp.
(d) What he remembers about Rosie.

5. What becomes genius?
(a) Longevity.
(b) Triteness.
(c) Anything a man reads after age 40.
(d) Silence.

6. What does William do when he walks in on Rosie having tea with Mary-Ann?
(a) He flees outdoors.
(b) He joins them as if he were an adult.
(c) He declines Rosie's invitation to join them.
(d) He listens to their conversation from the other room.

7. What are the Curate and Kemp urging Ted to do?
(a) Write a book about Christ.
(b) Sing and join in the chorus.
(c) Come to church on Christmas eve.
(d) Write a book about Blackstable.

8. What appears in all anthologies?
(a) A mention of Ted's name but none of his actual writing.
(b) Passages from Roy's books.
(c) Passages from Ted's books.
(d) Passages from William's books.

9. What does Amy have to force Ted to do?
(a) Pay his bills.
(b) Write.
(c) Talk to her.
(d) Bathe and change clothing.

10. 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 her father-in-law's letters.
(d) She wants to know what her father was like as a young man.

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

12. What do intelligent people cease to do after age 30?
(a) Think.
(b) Fight.
(c) Feel.
(d) Read.

13. What does the young William sometimes wonder about?
(a) If his uncle and aunt have ever done the things Rosie and Ted do.
(b) Why the Driffields bother with an youth.
(c) If he will be a writer like Ted.
(d) If Rosie is happy.

14. What surprises William?
(a) That Ted and Rosie recall their working-class past fondly.
(b) That William's uncle no longer interferes in Williams friendship with Ted and Rosie.
(c) That Rosie prefers to socialize with the working class.
(d) That Mary-Ann is actually friends with Rosie.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the key to Kear's stable popularity?

2. What is William determined to do despite his uncle forbidding it?

3. What is William trying to do on Easter break?

4. What does William thinks fills Ted's books?

5. What does William claim about him and Ted?

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