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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 2.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Why does Dottie tell Fleur that she is upset?
(a) Because she believes Leslie has a new gay lover.
(b) She fears her husband is about to leave her for Fleur.
(c) Because she learns that Leslie has had many lovers before Fleur.
(d) Because she cannot believe that Fleur will not stop seeing her husband.

3. On what does the former priest focus in his memoirs?
(a) He writes primarily of his time in the seminary.
(b) He focuses on what brought him into the church, rather than why he left.
(c) Proving that he was defrocked not for a lack of morals but for a loss of faith.
(d) He focuses on his childhood, not writing about his time in the church at all.

4. 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 suffers from Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder.
(b) She fears one day suffering from dementia and wants references to her past.
(c) She wants to use them as material for a future book.
(d) She has no explanation.

5. How does Fleur suggest Dottie cope with her suffering over Leslie's infidelities?
(a) She encourages Dottie to find an outside lover of her own.
(b) She suggests Dottie join the Association and write her own autobiography.
(c) She helps Dottie plan revenge.
(d) She tells Dottie to leave Leslie altogether.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Fleur describe her method of character development?

2. Where did Fleur first meet and interview with Sir Quentin?

3. How did Fleur get Lady Edwina to behave during her first meeting of the Association?

4. Fleur realizes in the first chapter that one of her senses has a more keen memory than the others. Which one is it?

5. Sir Quentin says that Lady Edwina is asleep when the first meeting ends, so Fleur does not take her out for dinner. When does she next see Edwina?

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