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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What was located across the street from Sir Quentin's flat?
(a) A pub, where she and her friends meet after work.
(b) Fleur's rooming house, making it easy to walk to work.
(c) The BBC building, where Fleur has always wanted to work.
(d) The hotel in which she interviewed with Sir Quentin.

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

3. Fleur lives surrounded by books, yet does not consider herself a bibliophile. Why not?
(a) She collects books by the hundreds but rarely reads them all the way through.
(b) She only collects books of poetry.
(c) She is only interested in books for the content, not for their rarity or value.
(d) She only borrows from the library rather than purchase books for her own.

4. How much progress have the members of the Autobiographical Association made when Fleur begins her employment?
(a) They are each approximately halfway through their memoirs.
(b) None have made it past the first chapter.
(c) Two of them are nearly finished, but the rest are just getting started.
(d) Two of them have not started, but most are nearly finished.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Who serves as the primary comic relief in the early part of the book?

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

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

4. What does Fleur believe she might gain from a confrontation with Mr. Alexander, even though she doesn't want one?

5. How does Fleur learn about the job at the Autobiographical Association?

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