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

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

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What does William agree to jot down?

3. When does Ted write his greatest books?

4. What can't William imagine?

5. Who does William see in the dark while Rosie is having tea with Mary-Ann?

Short Essay Questions

1. Describe William's memory of the last time he saw Ted.

2. What does William offer out of his memories of Ted and how does Roy respond?

3. What does William think about Ted's depiction of the high-born and others comparing Ted s to Shakespeare?

4. Describe Ted Driffield.

5. How does William link Ted's advancing age with his success?

6. What happens when William finds Rosie at tea one evening and then after Rosie walks out the door?

7. Describe Quinten Forde.

8. What does William learn from Mary-Ann?

9. Describe William Ashenden.

10. How does William initially meet Rosie?

(see the answer keys)

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