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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. How does Wally react to Fleur's anecdotes about the Autobiographical Association?
(a) He is bored and repeatedly tries to change the subject.
(b) He enjoys them greatly.
(c) He asks Fleur if he can join the organization.
(d) He is appalled at the idea of "fixing" supposedly true memoirs.

3. What does Fleur believe she might gain from a confrontation with Mr. Alexander, even though she doesn't want one?
(a) Through a confrontation with him, Fleur can upset his superior-acting wife.
(b) She believes by confronting him, she can convince him to lower her rent.
(c) Fleur knows a confrontation would upset him, and she might have a good laugh at his discomfiture.
(d) Fleur believes she has a demon inside her that rejoices in seeing people not just as they are, but more and more of how they are.

4. Which of the following is a member of the Autobiographical Association?
(a) Mrs. Winston.
(b) Baronne Clotilde du Loiret.
(c) Lady Bernice Gilliam.
(d) Father Edward Douglas.

5. What does Fleur say to Bucks Gilbert before she leaves?
(a) That she must leave and attend to Lady Edwina at once.
(b) That Sir Quentin insisted upon complete frankness and that frankly, the sandwiches were a great success.
(c) That she hopes to return and visit again when they can really chat.
(d) That she wishes she lived in such a gorgeous home.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Fleur do with her companion at the party?

2. Who does Dottie begin to confide in about her husband?

3. Lady Edwina behaves erratically with Sir Quentin and Beryl Tims. What are the symptoms of her supposed dementia?

4. Why does Revisson Doe agree to work with Fleur?

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

Short Essay Questions

1. Fleur is relieved when Sir Quentin tells her that he will take over the editing of the manuscripts, but is suspicious of his motivation. Why?

2. What is the basis for the argument between Maisie Young and Fleur in Chapter 5?

3. When "Bucks" Gilbert hosts a party, Fleur runs into her old friend Wally. What happens between them?

4. How does Fleur react to the beginning manuscripts of the memoirs when she first begins her work?

5. What does Fleur realize about Maisie Young when Maisie comes to visit her apartment?

6. What is Fleur's frame of mind at the beginning of the novel, and why?

7. What new information does Dottie share with Fleur when they are nursing each other through the flu that further blurs the line between the reality of the Association and the fiction transpiring in the Warrender Chase manuscript?

8. How does Fleur spend that first meeting of the Association?

9. Fleur describes the day she is sitting in the graveyard working on a poem as the last day of a whole chunk of her life, although she isn't aware of it at the time. Why do you think she feels this way?

10. How does Fleur meet Lady Edwina?

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