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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 4.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why does Fleur say she prefers writing fictionally over biographically?
(a) She hates doing factual research.
(b) She finds fantasy much more interesting than real life.
(c) She has yet to meet anyone interesting enough about whom to write.
(d) All the characters and the order of events are entirely up to her imagination.

2. Why hadn't four of the Association members come to recent meetings?
(a) Fleur suspects Sir Quentin is up to something devious to control the group.
(b) They have writer's block and don't wish to attend meetings until they are writing again.
(c) They have each decided they do not like Sir Quentin's timeline for the memoirs.
(d) They have been traveling out of the country.

3. How does Fleur react to Dottie's criticism of the character, Marjorie, in her book?
(a) She agrees with Dottie and decides she must rewrite the character.
(b) She becomes depressed, believing that perhaps she is not a good writer, after all.
(c) She bursts into tears and asks Dottie to leave.
(d) She becomes very angry and tears up her manuscript, sending Dottie home.

4. Lady Edwina behaves erratically with Sir Quentin and Beryl Tims. What are the symptoms of her supposed dementia?
(a) She makes outrageous statements and routinely wets herself.
(b) She forgets that Sir Quentin is her son.
(c) She refuses to eat.
(d) She wanders off into the city and regularly gets lost.

5. Sir Quentin offered Fleur wages of a "1936 vintage, and this was 1949, modern times." Why did she accept the position?
(a) Sir Quentin promised to help find a publisher for her novel.
(b) She had been unemployed for so long that she was on the brink of losing her room.
(c) For the promise of a totally new experience.
(d) Sir Quentin promised to raise her wages if she proved herself worthy after the first week.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What was the first physical quirk Fleur noticed about Sir Quentin when they met?

3. Why does member Maisie Young walk with a limp?

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

5. What is the single sentence, overheard by Fleur in restaurant, that had inspired her novel?

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