Prologue

Questions

1. What has Stevens decided to do at the beginning of the prologue?
2. How will Stevens travel around the West Country?
3. Where's Mr. Farraday going for a few weeks between August and September?
4. What does Stevens remember in spring 1955?
5. What did Mr. Farraday ask Stevens to do in the flashback in spring 1955?
6. What happened to Stevens when he tried to make do with four staff members?
7. Who sends Stevens a letter around the time Farraday makes his vacation offer?
8. What does Farraday joke about when Stevens says he's going to visit Miss Kenton?
9. What does Stevens remember after Farraday jokes about him visiting Miss Kenton?
10. What does Stevens decide to do at the end of the first chapter?

Answers

1. Take up a vacation offer from his employer, Mr. Farraday
2. In Mr. Farraday's Ford
3. America
4. The time after Mr. Farraday bought Darlington Hall from the Darlington family
5. Figure out a way to run the house with only four staff members
6. He kept catching himself making small mistakes.
7. Miss Kenton
8. Stevens having a "lady friend"
9. An earlier instance when he tried to crack a joke with Farraday and failed miserably
10. Write to Miss Kenton to let her know he plans to visit