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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. How does Ashenden characterize people in the countryside where he is raised?
(a) Well read and educated.
(b) Gracious.
(c) Rude.
(d) Irritable and suspicious.

2. 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.

3. What is Kear able to do?
(a) Parley his little talent into a successful writing and speaking career.
(b) Marry the girl everyone else wants to marry in college.
(c) Become an adviser to the Duke of Wellington.
(d) Become a member of the House of Commons.

4. 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 listens to their conversation from the other room.
(c) He joins them as if he were an adult.
(d) He flees outdoors.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Amy provide copies of to William?

2. Whose home does William visit unannounced at Christmas?

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

4. What does Roy wonder about Rosie?

5. What does William claim about him and Ted?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. What is fashionable to do when William is a young man?

4. Describe Ted Driffield.

5. How does William act for a while around the Driffields after seeing Rosie with Kemp?

6. Who comes to see William off to the new school term and how does William act?

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

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

9. Describe Rosie.

10. What does Ashenden ignore but still wonder about?

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