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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.
Short Answer Questions
1. With whom has Kear just spent a weekend?
2. Who is Mrs. Encombe?
3. What does William wonder about Ted?
4. At what is Ted best depicting?
5. What do some of the people at Mrs. Greencourt's tea party believe about literature?
Short Essay Questions
1. What does William offer out of his memories of Ted and how does Roy respond?
2. What does Lady Hodmarsh say about Amy Driffield?
3. What happens when William finds Rosie at tea one evening and then after Rosie walks out the door?
4. How does Ashenden characterize Alroy Kear's writing career?
5. What does William express about the concept of beauty?
6. What does Amy Driffield ask of William?
7. How does William link Ted's advancing age with his success?
8. What is fashionable to do when William is a young man?
9. How does William initially meet Rosie?
10. What does William think about Ted's depiction of the high-born and others comparing Ted s to Shakespeare?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Roy never marries because he believes marriage interferes with art and "people do not want to be bothered with the wives of authors and painters." Discuss the following:
1. How do you think having a spouse can detract from one's art?
2. How do you think having a spouse can enhance one's art?
3. When looking at the ways a spouse can either enhance or detract from one's art, which matrimonial state do you think you would choose were you an artist? Why?
4. What other aspects of life can detract and/or enhance one's artistic output?
Essay Topic 2
Setting as far as place and time play an important role in Cakes and Ale, although at the time the time is contemporary. Discuss the following:
1. Compare and contrast several aspects of the setting of that day from how it would be today. Consider things such as cultural norms and expectations, technology, religion, and medicine.
2. Do you think Cakes and Ale would be different if it were set in the United States of America in that same era? Consider particularly class issues.
3. What issues that are present in the time of Cakes and Ale would still be issues today? What would no longer be issues? Consider such things as class, women's roles, sexual freedom, propriety, manners, and integrity.
Essay Topic 3
In chapter 7, William wonders why the adult Driffields bother with a dull, quiet, and pretentious adolescent but they take him sailing and picnicking and William becomes passionate about rubbing brasses and occasionally spends time in the church yard talking with Rosie who treats him like a grown-up. Discuss the following:
1. Do you think William's aunt and uncle have a right to fear the influence of Ted and Rosie? Why or why not?
2. William says he becomes passionate about rubbing brasses, which is a pastime Ted introduces to William. What does this say about William's impressionistic nature? Is William easily influenced as a youth? What about as an adult when conferring with Amy and Roy?
3. Do you think having one or two adults outside the family involved in a young person's life makes a difference for that person? How? Is this a positive thing? Why or why not?
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