1. How does Fleur describe her method of character development?
(a) "It is the sum of my whole experience of others and of my own potential self."
(b) "I choose a person in my life and modify him to meet the needs of the story."
(c) "I incorporate those I meet in my dreams."
(d) "Each is the cumulation of friends I have met."

2. What does Fleur decide to do with the manuscripts when she begins typing them out?
(a) She made slight improvements in the stories, but the authors did not want any modifications.
(b) She interviews each author in order to get a better feel for their stories.
(c) As she tried to make sense of them, she made changes to make them worse.
(d) She edits them by hand before beginning to type them out.

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

4. What did Fleur add to the first chapter of Sir Eric Findlay's story?
(a) She portrayed him as being locked in a cupboard polishing silver while his nanny rode his rockinghorse with the butler.
(b) She wrote that his parents took his favorite rockinghorse away when he rode it without permission.
(c) She had him ride the rockinghorse with the butler rather than the nanny.
(d) She wrote about the butler stealing his rockinghorse to punish young Eric after he fell off and broke his nose.

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