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

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

3. What was the first physical quirk Fleur noticed about Sir Quentin when they met?
(a) His hands shake, making it difficult for him to write.
(b) His right shoulder protrudes slightly ahead of his left.
(c) He has a noticeable limp.
(d) One of his eyes cross, so she cannot tell if he is looking at her or not.

4. How does Fleur define the word 'frankness?'
(a) As a code word for speaking too freely.
(b) As a euphemism for rudeness.
(c) As what most communication in these modern times is missing.
(d) As the only way friends should communicate.

5. How does Dottie react when Fleur tells her that she thinks the entire Association has become obsessed with having Sir Quentin's approval?
(a) Dottie suddenly claims it was getting late, and abruptly leaves.
(b) Dottie stops knitting but says nothing.
(c) She agrees that Sir Quentin seems to inspire the members to follow him.
(d) She becomes unusually quiet.

Short Answer Questions

1. What did Fleur add to the first chapter of Sir Eric Findlay's story?

2. What does Eric Findlay interject in at an Association meeting, a phrase Dottie uses later that same evening to Fleur?

3. What is supposed to happen to the memoirs being written by the members of the Autobiographical Association?

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

5. What do Gray Mauser and Fleur discuss when they visit a pub together?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. Fleur has a long phone conversation that day with Lady Clotilde, one of the Association members. What does she tell Fleur about Sir Quentin?

3. How did Fleur feel about spending the evening in pub with Gray Mauser after her argument with Maisie?

4. 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?

5. Fleur keeps all of the letters she receives, and describes one in particular. Talk about that one.

6. How does Fleur handle the motivation behind the evil doings of the title character in Warrender Chase?

7. Describe the relationship between Fleur and her lover, Leslie.

8. Explain Fleur's confusion, early on, about her novel, Warrender Chase and how it related to the events with the Association.

9. What convinced Fleur that Sir Quentin had begun acting out an evil plan on the members of the Autobiographical Association?

10. Why does Fleur invite Dottie to participate in the Autobiographical Association?

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