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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How far back in time must Fleur go to tell us the story of the Autobiographical Association?
(a) Ten months.
(b) A decade.
(c) Three years.
(d) A summer.

2. What do Gray Mauser and Fleur discuss when they visit a pub together?
(a) His troubles with Leslie, who had gone to Ireland with Dottie.
(b) Why silk ties might be sex symbols.
(c) How he might break off his relationship with Leslie.
(d) How angry she was feeling toward Sir Quentin.

3. Why does member Maisie Young walk with a limp?
(a) Because she lost the use of her leg in a horseback riding episode.
(b) She was born with one leg shorter than the other.
(c) She only pretends to have a limp to make her story more interesting.
(d) She suffered from polio as a young child.

4. What does Lady Edwina say when her new nurse collects her from the Association meeting in Chapter 3?
(a) "Well my dears, he's got you where he wants you, hasn't he?"
(b) "Quentin, my son! Don't let her take me!"
(c) "I will NOT be treated like a pathetic old woman!"
(d) "She is a nurse, is she? Why do I need a nurse?"

5. How does Dottie describe Leslie's novel?
(a) A comic depiction of his life.
(b) Very good, very deep and basically autobiographical.
(c) A troubled fantasy about what can never be.
(d) Very funny, very real and quite touching.

Short Answer Questions

1. Fleur realizes in the first chapter that one of her senses has a more keen memory than the others. Which one is it?

2. How much progress have the members of the Autobiographical Association made when Fleur begins her employment?

3. How does Fleur define the word 'frankness?'

4. What about Lady Edwina does Fleur particularly like in the beginning?

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

(see the answer key)

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