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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. Where does money come from to Mrs. Grann?

2. Where does William meet Rosie one day?

3. What do Roy and Amy deplore?

4. What does William do all day while living at Vincent Square?

5. Where does Rosie live?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does Ted meet and marry his second wife and what is Isabel Trafford's reaction?

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

3. Describe Amy Driffield.

4. Describe the scene where William is talking to Hillier about painting Rosie.

5. How does William describe his visit to his former quarters and his landlady, Mrs. Hudson?

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

7. What does William say about Rosie's affairs and what are Amy and Roy's response?

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

9. Describe how William encounters Rosie in New York?

10. Describe Roy's relationship with the Traffords.

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Discuss the following:

1. What do you think are the characteristics of a successful novel?

2. Analyze and discuss Cakes and Ale based upon the criteria you decide upon in #1 and judge if Cakes and Ale is a successful novel.

3. Do you think the fact that Cakes and Ale may be based upon a real-life experience of the author changes the criteria upon which its success should be judged? Explain.

Essay Topic 2

Ted Driffield is married twice and has one other woman figure prominently in his life. Discuss the following:

1. Compare and contrast Rosie Driffield with Amy Driffield. Who seems more real, sincere, or honest? Which of them do you think was more helpful to Ted's artistic endeavors? Why? Do you think Rosie could have done for Ted what Amy does for Ted? What about Amy doing for Ted what Rosie does for him? Explain fully.

2. Compare and contrast Rosie Driffield with Isabel Trafford. Who seems more real, sincere, or honest? Which of them do you think was more helpful to Ted's artistic endeavors? Why? Do you think Rosie could have done for Ted what Isabel does for him? What do you think about Isabel doing for Ted what Rosie does for him? Explain fully.

3. Compare and contrast Amy Driffield with Isabel Trafford. Who seems more real, sincere, or honest? Which of them do you think was more helpful to Ted's artistic endeavors? Why? Do you think Amy could have done for Ted what Isabel does for Ted? What about Isabel doing for Ted what Amy does for him? Explain fully.

Essay Topic 3

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.

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