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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

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

4. What does William say is Ted's outstanding merit?
(a) His first wife Rosie.
(b) His Bohemian lifestyle.
(c) His longevity.
(d) His good taste in horses.

5. What does Kemp claim about Rosie and Ted?
(a) They will be back.
(b) They owe him for coal.
(c) They were not actually married.
(d) They were both terribly afraid.

6. How does Amy want Rosie portrayed?
(a) As a floosie.
(b) As ruining Ted morally, physically, and financially.
(c) As a glory hound.
(d) As a poor, illiterate peasant.

7. From where does Amy often have to fetch Ted?
(a) The pool hall.
(b) The house of ill repute.
(c) The gambling hall.
(d) The Bear and Key.

8. Into what topic does Kear ease into finally?
(a) A novel upon which Kear is working.
(b) Collaborating on a project.
(c) The life of the late Edward Driffield.
(d) Kear's sister.

9. What does Ted give William?
(a) 50 shillings.
(b) 25 shillings.
(c) 5 shillings.
(d) A one-pound note.

10. What is Ted considered at age 80?
(a) Boring.
(b) Untouchable.
(c) Washed out.
(d) The Grand Old Man of English Letters.

11. How does Ted characterize William as a youth?
(a) Shy.
(b) Intellectual.
(c) Arrogant.
(d) Outgoing.

12. With whom does William go to school?
(a) No one.
(b) The Kemp children.
(c) His brothers.
(d) His cousins.

13. What does the Vicar announce at dinner?
(a) Ted Driffield is in debtors prison.
(b) The Driffields have bolted to London, abandoning their debts.
(c) William has been accepted into Oxford.
(d) Rosie has left Ted for Kemp.

14. To what of Shakespeare's aspects are Ted compared?
(a) Shakespeare's best aspects.
(b) A few of Shakespeare's aspects, but mostly Ted is compared to James Joyce.
(c) None.
(d) Shakespeare's worst aspects.

15. What does William fail to do when Ted gives him money?
(a) Give his brother half.
(b) Write a thank you note.
(c) Give half to his uncle.
(d) Tithe 10 percent.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Amy provide copies of to William?

2. Who is Amy Driffield?

3. At what age is Ashenden when he first meets Driffield?

4. What does William use to interpret between the lines of what he learns about Ted and Rosie?

5. How does Ashenden characterize Kear's early novels?

(see the answer keys)

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