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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 15-21.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who is Miss Fellows?
(a) Ashenden's sister.
(b) Ashenden's landlady.
(c) Ashenden's fiancee.
(d) Ashenden's best friend's sister.

2. What does William think of as the "crown of literature?"
(a) Fiction.
(b) Poetry.
(c) Rhetoric.
(d) Drama.

3. What does Ashenden declare about Driffield's novels?
(a) He does not comment.
(b) They are mostly ideas from other authors.
(c) They are complex and intriquing.
(d) They are boring.

4. What does William do all day while living at Vincent Square?
(a) Work at the hospital.
(b) Write.
(c) Sleep.
(d) Lecture to students.

5. What does the young William sometimes wonder about?
(a) If his uncle and aunt have ever done the things Rosie and Ted do.
(b) If he will be a writer like Ted.
(c) Why the Driffields bother with an youth.
(d) If Rosie is happy.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is Kear able to do?

2. Why is the man called Lord George so named?

3. Who keeps Rosie occupied for a couple weeks?

4. About what part of Ashenden's life does he reminisce?

5. What mystifies the young William about Rosie after he hears her history?

(see the answer key)

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