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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who is Miss Fellows?
(a) Ashenden's fiancee.
(b) Ashenden's landlady.
(c) Ashenden's best friend's sister.
(d) Ashenden's sister.

2. What does William wonder about Ted?
(a) How he could have married someone like Amy.
(b) How he ever ganis such critical acclaim.
(c) If he still loved Rosie after marrying Amy.
(d) If he ever read any of William's books.

3. What does Ted teach William?
(a) How to filet a fish.
(b) How to ride a bicycle.
(c) How to flirt with pretty girls.
(d) How to create believable characters.

4. What does Ashenden first think of Driffield?
(a) As interesting.
(b) As boring.
(c) As exceedingly debonair.
(d) As a cad.

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

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

7. What does William do when he sneaks out to the Driffields?
(a) Gambles.
(b) Plays dice.
(c) Songs and whist.
(d) Helps Rosie cook.

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

9. Why can't Roy use William's memories of singing at Ted's home?
(a) Amy won't allow it.
(b) Because he is interested in writing not singing.
(c) Roy thinks William remembers incorrectly.
(d) Because of the type of songs they sang.

10. What does William recommend about Ted's first novel while at school?
(a) That it be burned.
(b) Nothing.
(c) That it be removed from the library.
(d) That it be used in class.

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

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

13. With whom has Kear just spent a weekend?
(a) The publisher of a very prestigious house that wants Kear to collaborate with Ashenden.
(b) A friend in high places politically.
(c) Driffield's widow.
(d) Kear's sister.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. When is William embarrassed?

2. Into what topic does Kear ease into finally?

3. What does Ashenden declare about Driffield's novels?

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

5. What does Roy wonder about Rosie?

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