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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. When does Ted write his greatest books?
(a) While living alone after Rosie leaves him.
(b) Before any marriage.
(c) During the war.
(d) While living with Rosie.

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

3. What is an anecdote Roy cannot use that William relates?
(a) That Ted criticizes Dickens.
(b) That Ted loved Rosie passionately.
(c) That Ted criticizes Samuel Richardson.
(d) That Ted criticizes Henry James.

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

5. What does William's uncle forbid?
(a) William to study literature.
(b) William to study law.
(c) William associating with such disreputable people as the Driffields.
(d) William to visit the Driffields in London as the town is too dangerous.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Driffield appear physically the last time William sees him?

2. What does Roy wonder about Rosie?

3. What does William suggest to Roy as he arrives?

4. Who can Ashenden's aunt not abide?

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

Short Essay Questions

1. Describe Rosie.

2. What does Ashenden think about Roy as a person?

3. Why does the Vicar not want to discuss Rosie and Ted?

4. Describe Mary-Ann.

5. What does William learn from Mary-Ann?

6. Describe Ted Driffield.

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

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

9. How does Ashenden characterize Alroy Kear's writing career?

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

(see the answer keys)

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