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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Why does Fleur begin taking Lady Edwina for the Sunday walks?
(a) Because no one is available to care for Lady Edwina at that time, and because she genuinely likes her.
(b) Lady Edwina reminds Fleur of her own mother.
(c) Beryl Tims gives up part of her pay to Fleur so that she can have Sundays off.
(d) Sir Quentin offers to pay her extra to take Lady Edwina off his hands.

3. What do Maisie and Fleur discuss during that first visit?
(a) Fleur's novel.
(b) Maisie's manuscript.
(c) Sir Quentin.
(d) Satan.

4. How does Fleur manage to attend one of Bucks Gilbert's parties?
(a) She is invited as an Association employee.
(b) She is unofficially employed to take coats and pass out food.
(c) She and Solly crash the party.
(d) She attends as the guest of Sir Eric.

5. How does Fleur feel about her name?
(a) She believes that she has blossomed over time and grown until her name fits.
(b) That because she believes herself to be relatively attractive, hers is a fitting name.
(c) That it was hazardously bestowed upon her at birth, before anyone know how she would turn out.
(d) That she'd have been better off named Joy or Gloria or Angela.

Short Answer Questions

1. Sir Quentin offered Fleur wages of a "1936 vintage, and this was 1949, modern times." Why did she accept the position?

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

3. Sir Quentin says that Lady Edwina is asleep when the first meeting ends, so Fleur does not take her out for dinner. When does she next see Edwina?

4. How does Dottie react to Fleur's novel, now that it is completed?

5. What romance is introduced in Chapter 4?

(see the answer key)

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