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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Where does Fleur find her manuscript after arriving at Dottie's flat?
(a) Arranged under the tea tray in the butler's pantry.
(b) In the bottom of her black knitting bag.
(c) Under her four-poster bed.
(d) In the bottom of her clothes cupboard.

2. In Chapter 12, Fleur expands on her narration of the present, reminding us that she is relating the adventures with the Autobiographical Association from a future perspective. What is it that prompts the policeman in the graveyard, in the summer of 1950, to say to Fleur, "Loitering with Intent?"
(a) She asks him to name one crime for which he has never arrested anyone.
(b) She asks him what, if he had to invent a crime for someone writing a book, he might suggest.
(c) She asks him what he last arrested someone for that day.
(d) She asks him what crime he might accuse her of, if any, for sitting on a gravestone.

3. How does Fleur react when Sir Quentin informs her that his mother is not of sound mind and that she should disregard any promises made about an inheritance?
(a) She does not believe him.
(b) She tells him he does not know his mother very well at all.
(c) She is furious and tells him she would never take payment for friendship.
(d) She is despondent as she had been counting on Edwina's generosity.

4. How did Fleur get Lady Edwina to behave during her first meeting of the Association?
(a) She promises to take her to dinner as soon as the meeting was over.
(b) She offers to bring her sweets when she comes in the following day.
(c) She promises to read the memoirs to her as they are finished.
(d) She offers to take her shopping for a new gown.

5. When is the problem Fleur's publisher calls her in to discuss?
(a) He has decided Warrender Chase is too evil and unrealistic to publish.
(b) He can't publish her first novel as Sir Quentin has accused her of plaigerism.
(c) He wants her to change the title of her second novel.
(d) He cannot publish Warrender Chase, as Sir Quentin has threatened to sue for libel.

Short Answer Questions

1. On what grounds has Sir Quentin threatened to sue for libel?

2. Fleur believes she saw someone in Dottie's window the night before. Who is it?

3. What does Eric Findlay interject in at an Association meeting, a phrase Dottie uses later that same evening to Fleur?

4. Who does Fleur see for the last time as she leaves Sir Quentin's drawing room?

5. Sir Quentin's death is nearly identical to the death in her novel of the character Warrender Chase. How is this theme continued at his funeral?

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