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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.
Multiple Choice Questions
1. What is Driffield awarded at a birthday celebration?
(a) Nothing; he dies before the celebration takes place.
(b) A knighthood.
(c) The Order of Merit.
(d) A lifelong achievement plaque.
2. At what age is Ashenden when he first meets Driffield?
(a) 18.
(b) 15.
(c) 10.
(d) 3.
3. At what is Ted best depicting?
(a) The working class.
(b) The military.
(c) The noble class.
(d) Young men.
4. What has Kear never done?
(a) Lectured at a prestigious institution.
(b) Married.
(c) Lied.
(d) Traveled outside England.
5. What does Amy write to William?
(a) She invites him to spend some time at her home.
(b) She wants her father-in-law's letters.
(c) She wants him rather than Kear to write about Edward.
(d) She wants to know what her father was like as a young man.
6. What does Ashenden wonder as he and Kear are having lunch?
(a) How Ashenden was silly enough to agree to this meeting.
(b) Why the lunch was going on two hours now.
(c) What Kear wants of Ashenden .
(d) How Kear can be so trite.
7. Into what topic does Kear ease into finally?
(a) The life of the late Edward Driffield.
(b) A novel upon which Kear is working.
(c) Collaborating on a project.
(d) Kear's sister.
8. With whom has Kear just spent a weekend?
(a) Kear's sister.
(b) The publisher of a very prestigious house that wants Kear to collaborate with Ashenden.
(c) A friend in high places politically.
(d) Driffield's widow.
9. What does Ted give William?
(a) A one-pound note.
(b) 50 shillings.
(c) 25 shillings.
(d) 5 shillings.
10. About what does Roy talk that irritates William?
(a) Pan.
(b) The Olympic gods.
(c) Beauty.
(d) Peace.
11. What does Ashenden say about the first Mrs. Driffield?
(a) That she writes most of Driffield's material.
(b) That she was misunderstood.
(c) That she was not an awful woman.
(d) That she was a real witch.
12. What surprises William?
(a) That Mary-Ann is actually friends with Rosie.
(b) That William's uncle no longer interferes in Williams friendship with Ted and Rosie.
(c) That Ted and Rosie recall their working-class past fondly.
(d) That Rosie prefers to socialize with the working class.
13. Why does Ted teach William to ride a bicycle?
(a) William's uncle requests it of Ted.
(b) Ted feels sorry for William.
(c) Ted is trying to ingratiate himself with William's aunt.
(d) William seems not to be able to teach himself.
14. How does Ted Driffield act the last time William saw him?
(a) As if he does not know William.
(b) Jovial.
(c) The same as always.
(d) Depressed.
15. How long has Ashenden known Kear?
(a) 20 years.
(b) 1 year.
(c) 3 years.
(d) He's never met him.
Short Answer Questions
1. What occasionally embarrasses William at the Driffield's house?
2. About what does Kear seem to have no qualms?
3. About what part of Ashenden's life does he reminisce?
4. What does William suggest to Roy as he arrives?
5. What does William say Ted was interested in?
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