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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 12.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What explanation does Fleur give for keeping all the letters she receives, including those from a book store to which she owed money?
(a) She wants to use them as material for a future book.
(b) She fears one day suffering from dementia and wants references to her past.
(c) She suffers from Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder.
(d) She has no explanation.

2. Which of the Association members dutifully visits Sir Quentin's grave daily, and converses with him there?
(a) Maisie Young.
(b) Clotilde du Loiret.
(c) Mrs. Wilks.
(d) Eric Findlay.

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

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

5. What does Fleur realize when she gets home after learning from her publisher that he will not publish her novel?
(a) That Sir Quentin is right, and that she must admit her guilt.
(b) That perhaps she should use a pseudonym before trying to get anything else published.
(c) That the publisher has the only typescript of Warrender Chase.
(d) That if she renames the novel, she can simply take it to a new publisher.

Short Answer Questions

1. Fleur mentions a bad writing habit of Leslie's and asks Dottie to warn him of it in his novel. How does Dottie respond?

2. Who begins taking Sunday afternoon walks with Fleur and Lady Edwina?

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

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

5. When did Fleur finally finish Warrender Chase?

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