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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What was located across the street from Sir Quentin's flat?
(a) A pub, where she and her friends meet after work.
(b) Fleur's rooming house, making it easy to walk to work.
(c) The BBC building, where Fleur has always wanted to work.
(d) The hotel in which she interviewed with Sir Quentin.

2. What had Sir Quentin tried to do with the members' manuscripts before Fleur got to work on them?
(a) He had not had a chance to do anything with the manuscripts, which is why he hired Fleur.
(b) He had tried only to polish the writing, leaving the stories intact.
(c) He had tried to make their boring lives seem distinguished and important.
(d) He had tried to insert adventure where none existed.

3. How had her main character, Warrender Chase, distinguished himself before the events of the novel begin?
(a) He had rescued a woman from a burning building.
(b) He had an exemplary war record.
(c) He started a charity to care for war orphans.
(d) He had uncovered a plot to embezzle millions from the Bank of England.

4. How much progress have the members of the Autobiographical Association made when Fleur begins her employment?
(a) They are each approximately halfway through their memoirs.
(b) Two of them are nearly finished, but the rest are just getting started.
(c) None have made it past the first chapter.
(d) Two of them have not started, but most are nearly finished.

5. How is the plot of Warrender Chase, the novel, influenced by Fleur's experience at the Autobiographical Association?
(a) It is not; it was already developed before she started working there.
(b) The flat where the meetings are held became the setting for the book.
(c) All of the Association members become the various victims of Chase in the novel.
(d) Sir Quentin becomes her muse for the title character.

6. Why does Fleur say she prefers writing fictionally over biographically?
(a) She has yet to meet anyone interesting enough about whom to write.
(b) All the characters and the order of events are entirely up to her imagination.
(c) She hates doing factual research.
(d) She finds fantasy much more interesting than real life.

7. 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 fears one day suffering from dementia and wants references to her past.
(b) She wants to use them as material for a future book.
(c) She has no explanation.
(d) She suffers from Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder.

8. 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 she'd have been better off named Joy or Gloria or Angela.
(d) That it was hazardously bestowed upon her at birth, before anyone know how she would turn out.

9. Who does Fleur run into at the Gilbert party?
(a) Beryl Tims and Sir Quentin, together in public for the first time.
(b) Her landlords, the Alexanders.
(c) Leslie and Gray.
(d) An old friend, Wally McConnachie.

10. Fleur realizes in the first chapter that one of her senses has a more keen memory than the others. Which one is it?
(a) Her hearing.
(b) Her sight.
(c) Her sense of taste.
(d) Her sense of smell.

11. How does Fleur learn about the job at the Autobiographical Association?
(a) In a letter from a well-meaning friend who she can't really recall.
(b) A friend of Beryl Tims recommends her for the position.
(c) She overhears Sir Quentin discussing it at the public library.
(d) She reads about it in the local newspaper.

12. What does Fleur do with her companion at the party?
(a) They eat most of the food at the party.
(b) They get heavily intoxicated.
(c) She convinces him to publish her next novel, sight unseen.
(d) They dance, even though no music playing.

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

14. What is supposed to happen to the memoirs being written by the members of the Autobiographical Association?
(a) The material will all be ghost-written by a professional author.
(b) They will be published in a series, each author being one of 10 installments.
(c) They will be published in 70 years, so that anyone mentioned within will be dead.
(d) Each one will be published upon the death of its author.

15. Why is Fleur initially so pleased with her new employer and his assistant?
(a) Because she realizes that they all have many interests in common.
(b) Because she sees much in their mannerisms and behaviors that will be useful in creating characters in her book.
(c) Because they agree to allow her time to work on her own writing during the day.
(d) Because they welcome her warmly and make her feel right at home.

Short Answer Questions

1. When Fleur first reads to Dottie from Warrender Chase, what is Dottie's reaction?

2. How does Maisie Young react to Fleur's room when she first visits?

3. How does Fleur view Leslie's infidelity?

4. 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?

5. Who does Wally think he's heard of before?

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