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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. 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 owes her old a friend a favor.
(d) He believes she has potential and that her future novels will be good.

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

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

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

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

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

9. What is Beryl Tims' primary task during the meetings of the Autobiographical Association?
(a) Keeping Lady Edwina under control and out of the way.
(b) Assisting Lady Edwina so that she can participate in the meetings.
(c) Taking notes on the ensuing discussions.
(d) Serving tea and scones to the members.

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

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

12. Because Fleur continues to hear one particular phrase repeated by Association members, she becomes convinced of what?
(a) That Beryl Tims has mixed up the manuscripts.
(b) That the members are stealing material from each other.
(c) That Sir Quentin has begun acting out an evil plan for them members.
(d) That their manuscripts are all beginning to sound the same.

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

14. 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.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. On what does the former priest focus in his memoirs?

2. What was the first physical quirk Fleur noticed about Sir Quentin when they met?

3. How does Fleur feel about her name?

4. Why does Dottie tell Fleur that she is upset?

5. Why hadn't four of the Association members come to recent meetings?

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