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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 4.
Multiple Choice Questions
1. Why doesn't Fleur leave her job and write full-time?
(a) Because she needs the money and the job has caught her interest.
(b) Because she continues to mine the manuscripts for ideas.
(c) Because she has become close to Lady Edwina.
(d) Because she needs to be around the people on whom she has based some of her characters.
2. What explanation does Fleur give for keeping all the letters she receives, including those from a book store to which she owed money?
(a) She fears one day suffering from dementia and wants references to her past.
(b) She wants to use them as material for a future book.
(c) She suffers from Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder.
(d) She has no explanation.
3. What does Fleur decide to do with the manuscripts when she begins typing them out?
(a) She edits them by hand before beginning to type them out.
(b) She interviews each author in order to get a better feel for their stories.
(c) She made slight improvements in the stories, but the authors did not want any modifications.
(d) As she tried to make sense of them, she made changes to make them worse.
4. What is supposed to happen to the memoirs being written by the members of the Autobiographical Association?
(a) Each one will be published upon the death of its author.
(b) They will be published in a series, each author being one of 10 installments.
(c) The material will all be ghost-written by a professional author.
(d) They will be published in 70 years, so that anyone mentioned within will be dead.
5. When Fleur first reads to Dottie from Warrender Chase, what is Dottie's reaction?
(a) She is confused by the plot line and can't keep the characters straight.
(b) She accuses Fleur of stealing ideas from the group.
(c) She thinks the funeral scene is too cold.
(d) She raves about what a fine writer Fleur has become.
Short Answer Questions
1. How does Dottie describe Fleur's character, Marjorie?
2. Which Association member does Fleur take a liking to at the first meeting?
3. How does Fleur view Leslie's infidelity?
4. What is the single sentence, overheard by Fleur in restaurant, that had inspired her novel?
5. How much progress have the members of the Autobiographical Association made when Fleur begins her employment?
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