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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What is William trying to do on Easter break?
(a) Learn to shoot quail.
(b) Grow a mustache.
(c) Learn to play polo.
(d) Learn to play bridge.

3. What can't William imagine?
(a) That Rosie would want to be with Ted.
(b) That Rosie would do the filthy things Mary-Ann claims.
(c) That Rosie would ever think William was worth her while.
(d) That Ted would ever tire of Rosie.

4. What becomes genius?
(a) Anything a man reads after age 40.
(b) Longevity.
(c) Triteness.
(d) Silence.

5. How long has Ashenden known Kear?
(a) 3 years.
(b) He's never met him.
(c) 1 year.
(d) 20 years.

6. How does Ashenden characterize Kear's early novels?
(a) Exquisitely beautiful.
(b) Repugnant.
(c) Tasteful.
(d) Trash.

7. What do some of the people at Mrs. Greencourt's tea party believe about literature?
(a) It should be uplifting to the soul and in praise of God.
(b) It should reflect life in all its various aspects, both good and bad.
(c) It ought not to deal with the vicious aspects of society.
(d) They do not really discuss literature.

8. Whose home does William visit unannounced at Christmas?
(a) Mary-Ann.
(b) His older sister.
(c) The Driffields.
(d) Roy Kear.

9. What does William wonder about Ted?
(a) How he could have married someone like Amy.
(b) How he ever ganis such critical acclaim.
(c) If he still loved Rosie after marrying Amy.
(d) If he ever read any of William's books.

10. What does Lady Hodmarsh call Amy?
(a) A devoted daughter.
(b) A money grabber.
(c) A sacrificial caregiver.
(d) A hoyden.

11. How does Ted Driffield act the last time William saw him?
(a) The same as always.
(b) Jovial.
(c) As if he does not know William.
(d) Depressed.

12. What is Kear able to do?
(a) Parley his little talent into a successful writing and speaking career.
(b) Marry the girl everyone else wants to marry in college.
(c) Become an adviser to the Duke of Wellington.
(d) Become a member of the House of Commons.

13. How does Amy want Rosie portrayed?
(a) As ruining Ted morally, physically, and financially.
(b) As a poor, illiterate peasant.
(c) As a glory hound.
(d) As a floosie.

14. What has Kear never done?
(a) Married.
(b) Lectured at a prestigious institution.
(c) Traveled outside England.
(d) Lied.

15. How does Driffield appear physically the last time William sees him?
(a) Shrunken and thin.
(b) Strong and hale.
(c) A bit overweight.
(d) Greatly overweight.

Short Answer Questions

1. What do some at the tea party believe of Dickens?

2. What does William use to interpret between the lines of what he learns about Ted and Rosie?

3. What appears in all anthologies?

4. With whom does William go to school?

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

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