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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How did Fleur get Lady Edwina to behave during her first meeting of the Association?
(a) She offers to bring her sweets when she comes in the following day.
(b) She promises to read the memoirs to her as they are finished.
(c) She offers to take her shopping for a new gown.
(d) She promises to take her to dinner as soon as the meeting was over.

2. By December of 1949, where is Fleur's primary focus?
(a) On figuring out what is going on in Leslie's life.
(b) On her novel, Warrender Chase, and an idea for a subesequent book.
(c) On spying on Sir Quentin.
(d) On coming between Dottie and Beryl Tims.

3. How does Fleur initially describe Beryl Tims?
(a) She is beautifully awful.
(b) She is rotund and plain.
(c) She is devilishly argumentative.
(d) She is unpleasant and manipulative.

4. 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 father was a duke.
(c) He is a baronet and his mother the daughter of an earl.
(d) He was once a member of parliament.

5. What does Fleur begin to notice toward the end of January, 1950?
(a) That the Association members are becoming better writers.
(b) The deterioration of the Association members.
(c) That Sir Quentin might be a decent sort, after all.
(d) That Dottie and Leslie no longer live together.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is Revisson Doe?

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

3. What does Dottie first write when she joins the Association?

4. Where does Leslie live after he moves out of his home with Dottie?

5. Who comes to visit after Fleur arrives home that first evening?

(see the answer key)

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