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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. 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 refuses to eat.
(c) She makes outrageous statements and routinely wets herself.
(d) She wanders off into the city and regularly gets lost.

2. What does Dottie first write when she joins the Association?
(a) Poetry.
(b) A piece about memories of her early childhood.
(c) A piece about her sufferings over Leslie.
(d) A chapter about meeting Fleur.

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

4. How does Fleur get rid of Maisie when she can tolerate her vapid conversation no longer?
(a) She intimates that a secret lover may be stopping by.
(b) She begins coughing and indicates her flu might be returning.
(c) She suddenly remembers a meeting she must attend.
(d) She feigns having to make a phone call.

5. How does Fleur view Leslie's infidelity?
(a) She thinks his ego is overblown.
(b) She feels sorry for him and believes he is unable to cope with his own problems.
(c) She wishes he would leave his wife and marry her.
(d) She believes he is unfaithful to Dottie because Dottie is so unattractive.

Short Answer Questions

1. To what does Fleur compare the members of the Association by the end of January, 1950?

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

3. After seven weeks, why does Sir Quentin tell Fleur he wants to take over editing the manuscripts?

4. Why does Fleur begin taking Lady Edwina for the Sunday walks?

5. What are Warrender Chase's intentions in Fleur's novel?

(see the answer key)

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