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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does William's uncle forbid?
(a) William to study law.
(b) William to study literature.
(c) William associating with such disreputable people as the Driffields.
(d) William to visit the Driffields in London as the town is too dangerous.

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

3. Who sees William off when he is leaving for fall term?
(a) His uncle.
(b) No one.
(c) Mary-Ann.
(d) Ted and Rosie.

4. Where does William want to stay when helping Roy?
(a) At Amy's home.
(b) At Roy's home.
(c) At the vicarage.
(d) The Bear and Key.

5. About what part of Ashenden's life does he reminisce?
(a) 20 years earlier.
(b) When he was just a toddler.
(c) 3 years earlier.
(d) 40 years earlier.

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

7. What does Roy wonder about Rosie?
(a) If she and Ted loved each other.
(b) How to portray her.
(c) If Ted actually married her.
(d) If she is still alive.

8. What can't William imagine?
(a) That Rosie would do the filthy things Mary-Ann claims.
(b) That Rosie would ever think William was worth her while.
(c) That Rosie would want to be with Ted.
(d) That Ted would ever tire of Rosie.

9. What is William determined to do despite his uncle forbidding it?
(a) Skip church to go bike riding with Ted and Rosie.
(b) Go to London.
(c) Make rubbings.
(d) Play in an upcoming pool match.

10. What does Ashenden declare about Driffield's novels?
(a) They are boring.
(b) They are complex and intriquing.
(c) He does not comment.
(d) They are mostly ideas from other authors.

11. What does William claim about him and Ted?
(a) He and Ted exchanged dozens of letters, all of which William still has.
(b) He and Ted had a falling out and William burns all Ted's letters.
(c) He has no letters or other materials from his association with Ted.
(d) He makes no claims.

12. Who is Mrs. Encombe?
(a) The vicar's wife's best friend.
(b) Blackstable's "New Woman."
(c) The vicar's sister.
(d) William's aunt.

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

14. What does William think is the reason Rosie sees Kemp?
(a) He is holding some evil spell over her.
(b) She is so innocent.
(c) She likes Kemp's son and is trying to get close to him.
(d) She is very poor.

15. What does Ashenden say about the first Mrs. Driffield?
(a) That she was a real witch.
(b) That she was not an awful woman.
(c) That she was misunderstood.
(d) That she writes most of Driffield's material.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who can Ashenden's aunt not abide?

2. What nationality does Ashenden's aunt have?

3. Why can't Roy use William's memories of singing at Ted's home?

4. What does the young William sometimes wonder about?

5. What does William say the English reverence in general?

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