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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. Of what does Isabel convince Ted?
(a) That he is the greatest writer of his day.
(b) That women are dying to marry him.
(c) That she knows what is best for him.
(d) That he does not need Rosie.

2. What is the Bear and Key where William stays like?
(a) In a total state of disrepair.
(b) Clean but sparsely furnished.
(c) Grubby and unchanged.
(d) Newly remodeled and elegant.

3. Why does William say Ted would not have taken Rosie back?
(a) Ted's strong feelings had passed.
(b) Ted would always wonder if she would leave again and it would harm his artitic life.
(c) Ted would feel cuckolded.
(d) Ted would be afraid he would not measure up to Kemp.

4. What does Isabel claim about the new Mrs. Driffield?
(a) She is just what Ted needs.
(b) She is so much Ted's intellectual inferior.
(c) She makes no statements about the new wife.
(d) She wants his money.

5. What does William notice for the first time about Rosie?
(a) She has full lips.
(b) She is pretty.
(c) She is much older than he.
(d) She has bad teeth.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the Driffield's furniture like?

2. Where does Isabel accompany Ted to?

3. Who calls Rosie a nymphomaniac?

4. What does Mrs. Hudson laugh at?

5. What renowned poet does Isabel manage?

Short Essay Questions

1. Describe Roy's relationship with the Traffords.

2. What novel does Ted publish which is a ruthlessly unsentimental tale dealing with a child's death, and what is the public's response to the novel?

3. What is Rosie's response to William's sulkiness about Kuyper and other men?

4. Briefly describe how William and Rosie's relationship continues.

5. Describe the motel in which William takes a room when he comes to share memories about Ted with Roy and Amy .

6. How do Rosie and William begin a romantic involvement?

7. What does Rosie do at night while Ted writes?

8. When William visits her in Yonkers, what does Rosie reveal about her marriage to Ted and a child they had?

9. Who are a couple other regulars at the Driffields' parties?

10. Describe how William encounters Rosie in New York?

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