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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. 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?
(a) Lady Edwina is waiting at the office for Fleur the next morning.
(b) She is waiting in Fleur's room when she arrives home.
(c) She doesn't see her til the next Association meeting.
(d) Fleur runs into her walking on the street when she takes her lunch hour the following day.

2. Who serves as the primary comic relief in the early part of the book?
(a) Lady Edwina.
(b) Mr. Alexander.
(c) Sir Eric Findlay.
(d) Fleur Talbot.

3. What does Dottie accuse Fleur of when Fleur seems displeased at her connections to the group?
(a) Being jealous of her superior writing skills.
(b) Trying to undermine Sir Quentin's work.
(c) Being jealous that she is getting close to them.
(d) Trying to steal the ideas of the members for her own work.

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

5. Why does Fleur believe she should stay with her current job rather than find another as Wally encourages?
(a) She feels protective of Lady Edwina.
(b) She believes she must figure out Sir Quentin.
(c) She has too much invested in the stories of the members.
(d) She'd rather be interested in this job than happy in another.

6. 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.

7. Why does Mr. Alexander keep insisting that Fleur move into a larger room in the his boarding house?
(a) His wife cannot stand Fleur and wants to charge her more rent.
(b) Her room is overcrowded with books, papers and the evidence of constant visitors.
(c) He knows she is considering a roommate and will need more space.
(d) He has another boarder who wants Fleur's room.

8. Fleur lives surrounded by books, yet does not consider herself a bibliophile. Why not?
(a) She collects books by the hundreds but rarely reads them all the way through.
(b) She only collects books of poetry.
(c) She only borrows from the library rather than purchase books for her own.
(d) She is only interested in books for the content, not for their rarity or value.

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

10. Fleur mentions a bad writing habit of Leslie's and asks Dottie to warn him of it in his novel. How does Dottie respond?
(a) She believes Fleur is wrong and decides not to mention it to Leslie.
(b) She becomes angry that Fleur has an intimate knowledge of his writing style.
(c) She agrees to mention it to him.
(d) She begins to cry and changes the subject back to Fleur and the Association.

11. Sir Quentin offered Fleur wages of a "1936 vintage, and this was 1949, modern times." Why did she accept the position?
(a) Sir Quentin promised to raise her wages if she proved herself worthy after the first week.
(b) Sir Quentin promised to help find a publisher for her novel.
(c) She had been unemployed for so long that she was on the brink of losing her room.
(d) For the promise of a totally new experience.

12. When Fleur phones Dottie after their visit and inquires if something is bothering her, what does Dottie say?
(a) She tells Fleur that she is merely sad about Leslie.
(b) She says that she is fine, just exhausted from traveling.
(c) She insists that Fleur is suffering delusions and beginning to go mad.
(d) She tells Fleur that she is worried about the Association members.

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

14. What did Fleur add to the first chapter of Sir Eric Findlay's story?
(a) She had him ride the rockinghorse with the butler rather than the nanny.
(b) She wrote that his parents took his favorite rockinghorse away when he rode it without permission.
(c) She wrote about the butler stealing his rockinghorse to punish young Eric after he fell off and broke his nose.
(d) She portrayed him as being locked in a cupboard polishing silver while his nanny rode his rockinghorse with the butler.

15. 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.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why does Revisson Doe agree to work with Fleur?

2. After the party, Fleur goes out with Wally McConnachie. Where do they go?

3. Who interrupts this meeting between Maisie and Fleur?

4. How many roses were delivered to Fleur the day she called in sick?

5. What is the title of the novel Leslie has begun writing?

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