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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. How does Fleur view Leslie's infidelity?
(a) She believes he is unfaithful to Dottie because Dottie is so unattractive.
(b) She thinks his ego is overblown.
(c) She feels sorry for him and believes he is unable to cope with his own problems.
(d) She wishes he would leave his wife and marry her.

3. What did Fleur tell Dottie when she invited her into the Association?
(a) She suggested she get to know Lady Edwina.
(b) She suggested that one of the members might make a good lover.
(c) She asked her to spy on Sir Quentin and Beryl Tims.
(d) She told her she suspected Sir Quentin was using the members, but warned her to use it only as a source of amusement.

4. Lady Edwina behaves erratically with Sir Quentin and Beryl Tims. What are the symptoms of her supposed dementia?
(a) She refuses to eat.
(b) She wanders off into the city and regularly gets lost.
(c) She makes outrageous statements and routinely wets herself.
(d) She forgets that Sir Quentin is her son.

5. What does Fleur find when stops to get a book for Maisie?
(a) The Autobiography of Lady Edwina.
(b) The Autobiography of Benvenuto Cellini.
(c) Another novel called Warrender Chase.
(d) A novel written by Sir Quentin himself.

6. What does Fleur ask of her friends, Theo and Audrey?
(a) To read the proofs of her novel and check only for spelling errors.
(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 take over the Sunday walks with Lady Edwina so she can concentrate on her next book.

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

8. Which Association member does Fleur take a liking to at the first meeting?
(a) Sir Quentin Oliver.
(b) Beryl Tims.
(c) Clotilde du Loiret.
(d) Maisie Young.

9. How many roses were delivered to Fleur the day she called in sick?
(a) Fourteen.
(b) Twelve.
(c) One.
(d) Six.

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 hates doing factual research.
(c) All the characters and the order of events are entirely up to her imagination.
(d) She finds fantasy much more interesting than real life.

11. On what does the former priest focus in his memoirs?
(a) He writes primarily of his time in the seminary.
(b) He focuses on his childhood, not writing about his time in the church at all.
(c) He focuses on what brought him into the church, rather than why he left.
(d) Proving that he was defrocked not for a lack of morals but for a loss of faith.

12. How does Fleur react about her book find when she shops for Maisie?
(a) She feels more curious than anything.
(b) She feels stunned, having not realized it was out there.
(c) She looks for more of the same kind of thing.
(d) She rejoices, feeling like she's met an old friend.

13. How does Dottie initially react to the members of the Autobiographical Association?
(a) She tries to turn them against Fleur in retaliation for her affair with Leslie.
(b) She is put off by their enormous egos.
(c) She immediately begins making friends.
(d) She feels alienated, as she had not yet written anything.

14. 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 agrees to mention it to him.
(c) She begins to cry and changes the subject back to Fleur and the Association.
(d) She becomes angry that Fleur has an intimate knowledge of his writing style.

15. How does Fleur get rid of Maisie when she can tolerate her vapid conversation no longer?
(a) She feigns having to make a phone call.
(b) She suddenly remembers a meeting she must attend.
(c) She begins coughing and indicates her flu might be returning.
(d) She intimates that a secret lover may be stopping by.

Short Answer Questions

1. To what does Fleur compare the members of the Association by the end of January, 1950?

2. How does Dottie describe Fleur's character, Marjorie?

3. By December of 1949, where is Fleur's primary focus?

4. Fleur lives surrounded by books, yet does not consider herself a bibliophile. Why not?

5. How far back in time must Fleur go to tell us the story of the Autobiographical Association?

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