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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. When Fleur and Wally run into Gray Mauser, what does Fleur tell him?
(a) That she wants to borrow the key to surprise Leslie by editing his writing.
(b) That she wants to borrow the key in order to clean the flat, as a surprise for Dottie.
(c) That she wants to borrow the key to leave a surprise in the flat for Dottie.
(d) That she hopes Dottie and Leslie put their marriage back together.

2. What news does Fleur receive from Lady Edwina's nurse that evening, after she's learned that her novel won't be published?
(a) That Lady Bernice has committed suicide.
(b) That Sir Eric Findlay has committed suicide.
(c) That Egbert Delaney has committed suicide.
(d) That Mrs. Wilks has committed suicide.

3. How does Fleur suggest Lady Edwina act as her accomplice?
(a) She asks Edwina to insist on Dottie as her caregiver for the evening, insist Dottie call a doctor and wet herself if she has to, to keep her away for three hours.
(b) Edwina should ask Dottie to help her begin her own autobiography, and insist that she begin that very evening.
(c) Pretend that she has fallen and call Dottie to take her to the hospital.
(d) She suggests Edwina invite Dottie to dinner and then take a drive, giving the taxi driver wrong directions so they get lost.

4. Fleur tells Sir Quentin that she knows he plagiarized her novel and plans to sue him. How does he respond?
(a) He breaks down and confesses, asking how they can reach some sort of agreement.
(b) He says that if Lady Edwina did not care so much for her, he'd get rid of her himself.
(c) He laughs her off and tells her she must be completely mad.
(d) He insists that scribbling on a novel is why she was unable to do her job well and that it is he who will sue.

5. What does Lady Edwina do before Fleur leaves Sir Quentin's flat?
(a) She cries and hugs Fleur, fearful she will never see her again.
(b) She agrees to retrieve Fleur's pay and employment cards from Sir Quentin.
(c) She shoves an envelope into Fleur's pocket.
(d) She promises Fleur she will speak to Sir Quentin on Fleur's behalf.

6. Who is Mrs. Fisher?
(a) Beryl Tims' sister.
(b) Lady Edwina's nurse.
(c) The publisher's assistant.
(d) Fleur's oldest friend.

7. In Chapter 12, Fleur expands on her narration of the present, reminding us that she is relating the adventures with the Autobiographical Association from a future perspective. What is it that prompts the policeman in the graveyard, in the summer of 1950, to say to Fleur, "Loitering with Intent?"
(a) She asks him what crime he might accuse her of, if any, for sitting on a gravestone.
(b) She asks him what, if he had to invent a crime for someone writing a book, he might suggest.
(c) She asks him to name one crime for which he has never arrested anyone.
(d) She asks him what he last arrested someone for that day.

8. Which of the Association members dutifully visits Sir Quentin's grave daily, and converses with him there?
(a) Eric Findlay.
(b) Mrs. Wilks.
(c) Maisie Young.
(d) Clotilde du Loiret.

9. How does Sir Quentin try to justify his behavior to Fleur?
(a) He says that if John Henry Cardinal Newman can form a group of spiritual followers, then so can he.
(b) He says that John Henry Cardinal Newman told him to form a group of followers and carry on his work.
(c) He says that he is a much better leader than John Henry Cardinal Newman ever was.
(d) He says that he just wants to be loved, and the Association members give him the devotion he craves.

10. What does Sir Quentin inquire about Fleur's future?
(a) If she has any marital prospects.
(b) If she plans to live abroad.
(c) If she would like to become a member of the Association rather than merely an employee.
(d) If she believes her novels will succeed.

11. Why does Fleur want to understand what Sir Quentin is up to?
(a) She wants to hire a detective to follow him.
(b) She wants to enlist the help of Beryl Tims, who seems closest to him.
(c) She is determined to become a victim of whatever he is doing.
(d) She wants to confront him with her suspicions.

12. Fleur realizes four things simultaneously in Chapter 7. She hears the sound of Beryl Tims heels approaching, Sir Quentin opening a deep drawer in his desk, the repetition in her mind of Sir Quentin's comment about her having delusions of grandeur, and what else?
(a) The realization that his words came directly from her manuscript of Warrender Chase.
(b) The sound of Lady Edwina having an accident in the parlor.
(c) That Sir Findlay had arrived.
(d) That she must leave her job with the Association at once.

13. Who interrupts the argument between Fleur and Sir Quentin?
(a) Dottie.
(b) Beryl Tims.
(c) Lady Edwina.
(d) Solly Mendelsohn.

14. What does Fleur do, by chance, that sends her gracefully into the fullness of her years, on her way, rejoicing?
(a) She finds a lucky coin as she exits her courtyard, hidden in the grasses.
(b) She catches a football flying through the air, as if it had been thrown directly to her.
(c) She finds a lost football and returns it to a young boy, who grins at her with his whole being.
(d) She kicked a football that accidentally flies at her, right into a boy's expectant hands.

15. What is that Sir Quentin has been enforcing upon the members?
(a) An early curfew so that the rest might heighten their creativity.
(b) A series of stringent deadlines.
(c) A "purifying fast."
(d) A rigorous exercise routine, to sharpen their minds.

Short Answer Questions

1. When Fleur stays up all night going through her manuscript, what does she realize?

2. What does Fleur do when they can not find her manuscripts?

3. Sir Quentin's death is nearly identical to the death in her novel of the character Warrender Chase. How is this theme continued at his funeral?

4. To what is the suicide attributed?

5. When is the problem Fleur's publisher calls her in to discuss?

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