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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. On whom did Fleur base the title character is Warrender Chase?
(a) He is based on Fleur's grandfather.
(b) He is based on Sir Quentin.
(c) No one; the character was already developed before she met her new employer.
(d) He is based on Fleur's lover, Leslie.

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

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

4. What does Fleur decide to do with the manuscripts when she begins typing them out?
(a) She edits them by hand before beginning to type them out.
(b) As she tried to make sense of them, she made changes to make them worse.
(c) She interviews each author in order to get a better feel for their stories.
(d) She made slight improvements in the stories, but the authors did not want any modifications.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Why does member Maisie Young walk with a limp?

2. How much progress have the members of the Autobiographical Association made when Fleur begins her employment?

3. How does Fleur describe her method of character development?

4. How is the plot of Warrender Chase, the novel, influenced by Fleur's experience at the Autobiographical Association?

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

Short Essay Questions

1. 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?

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

3. Describe any two members of the Association introduced in Chapter 2.

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

5. Why did Fleur bring her friends, Theo and Audrey, in to read the proofs of Warrender Chase for her?

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

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

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

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

10. What does Wally suggest Fleur should do about her job, and how does she respond?

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