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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 3.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. 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) She edits them by hand before beginning to type them out.
(d) As she tried to make sense of them, she made changes to make them worse.

2. Why does Mr. Alexander keep insisting that Fleur move into a larger room in the his boarding house?
(a) Her room is overcrowded with books, papers and the evidence of constant visitors.
(b) He knows she is considering a roommate and will need more space.
(c) His wife cannot stand Fleur and wants to charge her more rent.
(d) He has another boarder who wants Fleur's room.

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

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

5. Fleur realizes in the first chapter that one of her senses has a more keen memory than the others. Which one is it?
(a) Her sense of smell.
(b) Her hearing.
(c) Her sense of taste.
(d) Her sight.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Fleur react to Dottie's criticism of the character, Marjorie, in her book?

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

3. Why is Fleur initially so pleased with her new employer and his assistant?

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

5. Why does Fleur say she prefers writing fictionally over biographically?

(see the answer key)

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