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

2. 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?
(a) She doesn't see her til the next Association meeting.
(b) Lady Edwina is waiting at the office for Fleur the next morning.
(c) Fleur runs into her walking on the street when she takes her lunch hour the following day.
(d) She is waiting in Fleur's room when she arrives home.

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

4. On whom did Fleur base the title character is Warrender Chase?
(a) He is based on Fleur's grandfather.
(b) He is based on Fleur's lover, Leslie.
(c) He is based on Sir Quentin.
(d) No one; the character was already developed before she met her new employer.

5. Fleur initially sees Sir Quentin as a "social imposter," but realizes he does have a regal background when she learns that:
(a) His father had served in parliament.
(b) He was once a member of parliament.
(c) He father was a duke.
(d) He is a baronet and his mother the daughter of an earl.

Short Answer Questions

1. How much progress have the members of the Autobiographical Association made when Fleur begins her employment?

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

3. Why does Dottie tell Fleur that she is upset?

4. What is supposed to happen to the memoirs being written by the members of the Autobiographical Association?

5. Fleur lives surrounded by books, yet does not consider herself a bibliophile. Why not?

(see the answer key)

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