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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. 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) They dance, even though no music playing.
(d) She convinces him to publish her next novel, sight unseen.

2. What happens to the first publisher who offered Fleur a contract for Warrender Chase?
(a) Solly convinces her that she should accept it.
(b) Solly offers to renegotiate it for her.
(c) Lady Edwina confides that she knows the publisher and he is unethical.
(d) She, Solly and Lady Edwina decide the contract is not acceptable and reject it.

3. Where does Leslie live after he moves out of his home with Dottie?
(a) With a young hairdresser with whom he has taken up.
(b) With Fleur.
(c) With Solly.
(d) With his new lover, a male poet.

4. How does Wally react to Fleur's anecdotes about the Autobiographical Association?
(a) He is appalled at the idea of "fixing" supposedly true memoirs.
(b) He is bored and repeatedly tries to change the subject.
(c) He asks Fleur if he can join the organization.
(d) He enjoys them greatly.

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

6. Why hadn't four of the Association members come to recent meetings?
(a) They have been traveling out of the country.
(b) They have writer's block and don't wish to attend meetings until they are writing again.
(c) Fleur suspects Sir Quentin is up to something devious to control the group.
(d) They have each decided they do not like Sir Quentin's timeline for the memoirs.

7. How does Fleur react to Dottie's first written piece?
(a) She doesn't respond, deciding to use Dottie's thoughts in her own book.
(b) She tears it up and tells her not to share it with the group.
(c) She edits it for her and coaches her on writing techniques.
(d) She reads it aloud to the group at the next meeting.

8. Which character becomes more important to the story in Chapter 3?
(a) The ex-priest.
(b) Dottie.
(c) Mr. Alexander.
(d) Beryl Tims.

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

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

11. Who does Dottie begin to confide in about her husband?
(a) Sir Quentin.
(b) Sir Eric Findlay.
(c) Lady Edwina.
(d) Beryl Tims.

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

13. What does Solly Mendelsohn do for a living?
(a) He owns a bookstore.
(b) He is a tailor.
(c) He is a journalist.
(d) He is a banker.

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

15. Who interrupts this meeting between Maisie and Fleur?
(a) Solly Mendelsohn.
(b) Dottie.
(c) Lady Edwina.
(d) Gray Mauser.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Fleur view Leslie's infidelity?

2. Who had visited Fleur's room while she was out dancing?

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

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

5. How is the plot of Warrender Chase, the novel, influenced by Fleur's experience at the Autobiographical Association?

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