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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What romance is introduced in Chapter 4?
(a) Fleur and Solly.
(b) Dottie and an unnamed lover.
(c) Beryl Sims and Sir Quentin.
(d) Solly and Lady Edwina.

2. What does Fleur begin to notice toward the end of January, 1950?
(a) That Sir Quentin might be a decent sort, after all.
(b) That the Association members are becoming better writers.
(c) The deterioration of the Association members.
(d) That Dottie and Leslie no longer live together.

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

4. Fleur initially sees Sir Quentin as a "social imposter," but realizes he does have a regal background when she learns that:
(a) He is a baronet and his mother the daughter of an earl.
(b) He was once a member of parliament.
(c) He father was a duke.
(d) His father had served in parliament.

5. Why doesn't Fleur leave her job and write full-time?
(a) Because she continues to mine the manuscripts for ideas.
(b) Because she needs to be around the people on whom she has based some of her characters.
(c) Because she has become close to Lady Edwina.
(d) Because she needs the money and the job has caught her interest.

6. How had her main character, Warrender Chase, distinguished himself before the events of the novel begin?
(a) He started a charity to care for war orphans.
(b) He had an exemplary war record.
(c) He had rescued a woman from a burning building.
(d) He had uncovered a plot to embezzle millions from the Bank of England.

7. What about Lady Edwina does Fleur particularly like in the beginning?
(a) Her sense of humor.
(b) Her opinions about the various memoirs.
(c) Her thoughtful, kind demeanor.
(d) Her grand entrances and extraordinary statements.

8. 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 loves the tiny room, viewing it as one might view the home of a Hobbit.
(c) She is amazed at its compact size, revealing an ignorance of the realities of being poor.
(d) She tries to convince Fleur to move into her estate.

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

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

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

12. How did Fleur get Lady Edwina to behave during her first meeting of the Association?
(a) She promises to take her to dinner as soon as the meeting was over.
(b) She offers to take her shopping for a new gown.
(c) She offers to bring her sweets when she comes in the following day.
(d) She promises to read the memoirs to her as they are finished.

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. Which of the following is a member of the Autobiographical Association?

4. How does Dottie behave when she comes down with the flu?

5. Where did Fleur first meet and interview with Sir Quentin?

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