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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the key to Kear's stable popularity?
(a) Bribery.
(b) Excellent writing.
(c) His father's publishing company.
(d) Sincerity.

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

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

4. Whose home does William visit unannounced at Christmas?
(a) Mary-Ann.
(b) Roy Kear.
(c) The Driffields.
(d) His older sister.

5. What does Roy want when he calls William?
(a) To visit.
(b) A copy of William's diary entries about Driffield.
(c) A note he left with William.
(d) Any photographs of Driffield William may have.

Short Answer Questions

1. From where does Amy often have to fetch Ted?

2. With whom does Ted's companion Rosie carry on at one time?

3. Why does Ted teach William to ride a bicycle?

4. What does Ted teach William?

5. With whom has Kear just spent a weekend?

Short Essay Questions

1. Describe Mrs. Greencourt's tea party, particularly the conversation about the Driffields and literature.

2. How does Ted know the Kemp family and what does he think of them?

3. What does Lady Hodmarsh say about Amy Driffield?

4. Describe Quinten Forde.

5. Briefly describe William's interaction with Ted and Rosie when he is a youth.

6. Describe Roy Kear.

7. What happens when William comes home for Easter Break and what surprising announcement does the Vicar make?

8. What does Ashenden ignore but still wonder about?

9. What does William say when asked about Edward Driffield and what do they debate?

10. Describe Mary-Ann.

(see the answer keys)

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