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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 6.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. To what does Fleur compare the members of the Association by the end of January, 1950?
(a) Good pets, willing to follow their master anywhere.
(b) The children she sees chattering on the way to school each morning.
(c) Old married couples, constantly arguing with each other.
(d) The bombed-out buildings still found along some London streeets.

2. What does Fleur do while at home for two weeks with the flu?
(a) She takes a hiatus from writing altogether.
(b) She finishes her novel.
(c) She begins a new novel.
(d) She digs into Sir Quentin's past.

3. How does Fleur react about her book find when she shops for Maisie?
(a) She rejoices, feeling like she's met an old friend.
(b) She looks for more of the same kind of thing.
(c) She feels more curious than anything.
(d) She feels stunned, having not realized it was out there.

4. How does Fleur define the word 'frankness?'
(a) As what most communication in these modern times is missing.
(b) As the only way friends should communicate.
(c) As a euphemism for rudeness.
(d) As a code word for speaking too freely.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. What is the single sentence, overheard by Fleur in restaurant, that had inspired her novel?

4. Because Fleur continues to hear one particular phrase repeated by Association members, she becomes convinced of what?

5. What had Sir Quentin tried to do with the members' manuscripts before Fleur got to work on them?

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