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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Who begins taking Sunday afternoon walks with Fleur and Lady Edwina?
(a) Solly Mendelsohn.
(b) Dottie.
(c) Leslie.
(d) Mrs. Alexander.

3. What does Dottie first write when she joins the Association?
(a) A piece about memories of her early childhood.
(b) A piece about her sufferings over Leslie.
(c) A chapter about meeting Fleur.
(d) Poetry.

4. What does Fleur ask of her friends, Theo and Audrey?
(a) To take over the Sunday walks with Lady Edwina so she can concentrate on her next book.
(b) To help her brainstorm ideas for her next novel's plotline.
(c) To read the proofs of her novel and critique the character development.
(d) To read the proofs of her novel and check only for spelling errors.

5. How does Fleur feel when Sir Quentin decides to take over the manuscript editing?
(a) She was angry because she loved the work.
(b) She is glad to be rid of it because they'd started writing about their romantic adventures.
(c) She was disappointed because the members liked her work.
(d) She didn't care one way or the other.

6. How does Fleur describe her method of character development?
(a) "It is the sum of my whole experience of others and of my own potential self."
(b) "Each is the cumulation of friends I have met."
(c) "I incorporate those I meet in my dreams."
(d) "I choose a person in my life and modify him to meet the needs of the story."

7. What happens when Dottie returns from Ireland?
(a) Leslie asks if he can move in with Fleur.
(b) Leslie returns immediately to Gray.
(c) Leslie and Dottie renew their marriage vows.
(d) She informs Fleur that she wants Leslie to leave.

8. Where did Fleur first meet and interview with Sir Quentin?
(a) In the offices of the Autobiographical Association.
(b) In the lobby of the Berkeley Hotel.
(c) At a local pub.
(d) In the sitting room of her boarding house.

9. 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 intimates that a secret lover may be stopping by.
(c) She begins coughing and indicates her flu might be returning.
(d) She feigns having to make a phone call.

10. Who comes to visit after Fleur arrives home that first evening?
(a) Her landlord's wife, Mrs. Alexander.
(b) Both her lover, Leslie, and his wife, Dottie.
(c) Beryl Tims.
(d) Sir Quentin.

11. What are Warrender Chase's intentions in Fleur's novel?
(a) He wants to be rid of his lovers altogether.
(b) She never reveals them, only the effects of his actions.
(c) He wants a new lover without giving up his current mistress.
(d) He is trying to start a religious cult.

12. Which of the following is a member of the Autobiographical Association?
(a) Lady Bernice Gilliam.
(b) Baronne Clotilde du Loiret.
(c) Mrs. Winston.
(d) Father Edward Douglas.

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

14. Why had Fleur never thought highly of Gray Mauser before their conversation at the pub?
(a) He is so quiet that she had little about him to think much of.
(b) Because she and Dottie had become friends, she felt protective of Dottie.
(c) He had, in essence, taken Leslie away from her.
(d) He had been exceedingly rude to Fleur when they'd first met.

15. 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 portrayed him as being locked in a cupboard polishing silver while his nanny rode his rockinghorse with the butler.
(c) She wrote that his parents took his favorite rockinghorse away when he rode it without permission.
(d) She wrote about the butler stealing his rockinghorse to punish young Eric after he fell off and broke his nose.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Lady Edwina say when her new nurse collects her from the Association meeting in Chapter 3?

2. What about Lady Edwina does Fleur particularly like in the beginning?

3. How does Fleur suggest Dottie cope with her suffering over Leslie's infidelities?

4. Who does Dottie begin to confide in about her husband?

5. How does Fleur feel after this visit with Gray?

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