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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why does Rosie rarely attend luncheons and teas?
(a) She has too many other things to do.
(b) She knows that she is not truly wanted.
(c) She is bored with them.
(d) She does not understand the lectures.

2. Who visits Ted and Amy's house while William is there?
(a) A Russian.
(b) Two Italians.
(c) Two Germans.
(d) Two Americans.

3. Why does William say Ted would not have taken Rosie back?
(a) Ted would feel cuckolded.
(b) Ted would be afraid he would not measure up to Kemp.
(c) Ted would always wonder if she would leave again and it would harm his artitic life.
(d) Ted's strong feelings had passed.

4. What happens to Kemp's business deal?
(a) It is just in its infancy.
(b) It is thriving.
(c) It falls through and a warrant is issued for Kemp.
(d) He ends all business deals.

5. How does William remember Rosie?
(a) As fresh and innocent.
(b) As a madonna figure.
(c) Alive and passionate.
(d) Only vaguely.

6. What does Isabel say Rosie looks like in the painting of her?
(a) A sacrificial heifer.
(b) A river sprite.
(c) Eve in the garden.
(d) A vengeful goddess.

7. Who greets William as he walks down High Street?
(a) The old curate from Blakestable.
(b) A good friend of Rosie's.
(c) A former classmate at his prepatory school.
(d) A former classmate in medical studies.

8. What does the Bear and Key rent William?
(a) A bicycle.
(b) An old Rolls.
(c) An old Bentley.
(d) A dilapidated Daimler.

9. What does Rosie say will happen in a hundred years?
(a) People will revere William as a poet.
(b) People will live the way they wish.
(c) They will all be dead and none of this will matter.
(d) Women will be as free as men to enjoy sex without censure.

10. What is one thing that has not changed about Rosie when William sees her late in her life?
(a) Her good figure.
(b) Her child-like and mischievous smile.
(c) Her concern for others.
(d) Her deepset, sparkling eyes.

11. What does William think should be abolished?
(a) The House of Lords.
(b) Royalty.
(c) Free education.
(d) The House of Commons.

12. What is Quentin Forde most interested in at the Driffields' parties?
(a) Coming to the attention of Isabel Trafford.
(b) Talking to Jasper Gibbons.
(c) Rosie's beauty.
(d) Talking to Ted about plots.

13. With what is Ted preoccupied?
(a) Reading.
(b) Illness.
(c) Editing and writing.
(d) Another woman.

14. What does William know that Roy and Amy do not?
(a) Ted had a daughter from an affair before Rosie who is alive.
(b) Both Rosie and Kemp are still alive.
(c) Rosie is still alive.
(d) Ted had a son from an affair before Rosie who is alive.

15. What does William notice about Amy?
(a) She is good at getting her own way.
(b) She is submissive to men.
(c) She is quite pretty.
(d) She is a bit churlish.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does William learn from Newton one day?

2. To whom has Roy grown close?

3. What is the landlady's strict policy about fire?

4. What is Amy sure that Ted did not know?

5. Where does Rosie live?

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