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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How does Fleur feel about her name?
(a) That it was hazardously bestowed upon her at birth, before anyone know how she would turn out.
(b) That she'd have been better off named Joy or Gloria or Angela.
(c) She believes that she has blossomed over time and grown until her name fits.
(d) That because she believes herself to be relatively attractive, hers is a fitting name.

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

3. Why does member Maisie Young walk with a limp?
(a) She suffered from polio as a young child.
(b) She only pretends to have a limp to make her story more interesting.
(c) Because she lost the use of her leg in a horseback riding episode.
(d) She was born with one leg shorter than the other.

4. What is supposed to happen to the memoirs being written by the members of the Autobiographical Association?
(a) They will be published in a series, each author being one of 10 installments.
(b) The material will all be ghost-written by a professional author.
(c) They will be published in 70 years, so that anyone mentioned within will be dead.
(d) Each one will be published upon the death of its author.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Fleur decide to do with the manuscripts when she begins typing them out?

2. Which of the following is a member of the Autobiographical Association?

3. What is Beryl Tims' primary task during the meetings of the Autobiographical Association?

4. What was located across the street from Sir Quentin's flat?

5. Sir Quentin offered Fleur wages of a "1936 vintage, and this was 1949, modern times." Why did she accept the position?

(see the answer key)

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