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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How does Maisie Young react to Fleur's room when she first visits?
(a) She feels sorry for Fleur, wishing aloud she had a larger home.
(b) She is amazed at its compact size, revealing an ignorance of the realities of being poor.
(c) She loves the tiny room, viewing it as one might view the home of a Hobbit.
(d) She tries to convince Fleur to move into her estate.

2. How do Gray and Fleur define the differences between men and women?
(a) Women are more emotional, men are more practical.
(b) Women are more sentimental, men more dependable.
(c) Men are more emotional, women are more practical.
(d) Men are more sentimental, women more dependable.

3. What does Lady Edwina say when her new nurse collects her from the Association meeting in Chapter 3?
(a) "Quentin, my son! Don't let her take me!"
(b) "She is a nurse, is she? Why do I need a nurse?"
(c) "Well my dears, he's got you where he wants you, hasn't he?"
(d) "I will NOT be treated like a pathetic old woman!"

4. To what does Fleur compare the members of the Association by the end of January, 1950?
(a) Good pets, willing to follow their master anywhere.
(b) The bombed-out buildings still found along some London streeets.
(c) The children she sees chattering on the way to school each morning.
(d) Old married couples, constantly arguing with each other.

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

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

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

8. Who does Sir Eric Findlay believe is no longer of sound mind?
(a) Lady Edwina
(b) The former priest
(c) Sir Quentin
(d) Mrs. Wilks

9. 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.

10. 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 has no explanation.
(c) She fears one day suffering from dementia and wants references to her past.
(d) She wants to use them as material for a future book.

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

12. Why does Revisson Doe agree to work with Fleur?
(a) He believes that through Fleur, he can learn more about Sir Quentin.
(b) He finds her oddly appealing and wants to get closer to her.
(c) He believes she has potential and that her future novels will be good.
(d) He owes her old a friend a favor.

13. By December of 1949, where is Fleur's primary focus?
(a) On figuring out what is going on in Leslie's life.
(b) On her novel, Warrender Chase, and an idea for a subesequent book.
(c) On spying on Sir Quentin.
(d) On coming between Dottie and Beryl Tims.

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

15. Which of the characters in Fleur's novel most resembles Lady Edwina?
(a) Charlotte.
(b) Prudence.
(c) Marjorie.
(d) Proudie.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Fleur learn about the job at the Autobiographical Association?

2. What happens when Fleur calls in sick after spending the night dancing with Wally?

3. Who takes care of Fleur when she is ill?

4. What do Maisie and Fleur discuss during that first visit?

5. How does Dottie initially react to the members of the Autobiographical Association?

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