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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 7.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is that Fleur realizes Sir Quentin has been giving the Association members?
(a) Marijuana.
(b) Whiskey.
(c) Opium.
(d) Dexedrine.

2. Why doesn't Fleur leave her job and write full-time?
(a) Because she needs to be around the people on whom she has based some of her characters.
(b) Because she has become close to Lady Edwina.
(c) Because she needs the money and the job has caught her interest.
(d) Because she continues to mine the manuscripts for ideas.

3. What does Fleur begin to notice toward the end of January, 1950?
(a) That Dottie and Leslie no longer live together.
(b) The deterioration of the Association members.
(c) That Sir Quentin might be a decent sort, after all.
(d) That the Association members are becoming better writers.

4. How does Dottie initially react to the members of the Autobiographical Association?
(a) She is put off by their enormous egos.
(b) She tries to turn them against Fleur in retaliation for her affair with Leslie.
(c) She immediately begins making friends.
(d) She feels alienated, as she had not yet written anything.

5. How had her main character, Warrender Chase, distinguished himself before the events of the novel begin?
(a) He had rescued a woman from a burning building.
(b) He had an exemplary war record.
(c) He had uncovered a plot to embezzle millions from the Bank of England.
(d) He started a charity to care for war orphans.

Short Answer Questions

1. When Fleur phones Dottie after their visit and inquires if something is bothering her, what does Dottie say?

2. What happens to the first publisher who offered Fleur a contract for Warrender Chase?

3. What does Dottie accuse Fleur of when Fleur seems displeased at her connections to the group?

4. Who begins taking Sunday afternoon walks with Fleur and Lady Edwina?

5. What passage does Fleur find in Cellini, the book she sits down to read to ease her worries after she leaves Sir Quentin's flat?

(see the answer key)

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