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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 do intelligent people cease to do after age 30?
(a) Fight.
(b) Feel.
(c) Think.
(d) Read.

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

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

4. Who sees William off when he is leaving for fall term?
(a) His uncle.
(b) Ted and Rosie.
(c) No one.
(d) Mary-Ann.

5. What does William suggest to Roy as he arrives?
(a) Roy may be Ted's successor.
(b) He is acutally less boring than Ted to read.
(c) Roy is being mediocre by adoring a mediocre writer.
(d) He should really read one of Ted's books.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is generous in giving new writers a leg up?

2. Who is Miss Fellows?

3. With whom has Kear just spent a weekend?

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

5. When does Ted write his greatest books?

Short Essay Questions

1. Describe William Ashenden.

2. What does William think about on his way home from the lunch with Kear?

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

4. What does Amy Driffield ask of William?

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

6. Describe Quinten Forde.

7. Describe Mary-Ann.

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

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

10. What does William express about the concept of beauty?

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