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

2. Why hadn't four of the Association members come to recent meetings?
(a) They have been traveling out of the country.
(b) They have writer's block and don't wish to attend meetings until they are writing again.
(c) They have each decided they do not like Sir Quentin's timeline for the memoirs.
(d) Fleur suspects Sir Quentin is up to something devious to control the group.

3. Who serves as the primary comic relief in the early part of the book?
(a) Sir Eric Findlay.
(b) Lady Edwina.
(c) Mr. Alexander.
(d) Fleur Talbot.

4. How does Fleur feel after this visit with Gray?
(a) Glad that Leslie has returned, at least temporarily, to Dottie.
(b) Worried that Gray might do himself harm.
(c) Her rage has subsided and she believes him much more sane than any members of the Association.
(d) Jealous that he has been so involved with Leslie.

5. Because Fleur continues to hear one particular phrase repeated by Association members, she becomes convinced of what?
(a) That Sir Quentin has begun acting out an evil plan for them members.
(b) That their manuscripts are all beginning to sound the same.
(c) That the members are stealing material from each other.
(d) That Beryl Tims has mixed up the manuscripts.

Short Answer Questions

1. What romance is introduced in Chapter 4?

2. What about Lady Edwina does Fleur particularly like in the beginning?

3. How many roses were delivered to Fleur the day she called in sick?

4. Fleur realizes in the first chapter that one of her senses has a more keen memory than the others. Which one is it?

5. After the party, Fleur goes out with Wally McConnachie. Where do they go?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does Fleur react upon learning that Beryl Tims loves Sir Quentin?

2. What does Fleur find unusual about Dottie when she visits Fleur after returning from Ireland?

3. How does recounting her adventures with the Autobiographical Association make Fleur feel about the differences between fiction and nonfiction?

4. What is the first publisher's reaction to Fleur's novel, Warrender Chase?

5. An important parallel is drawn at the end of Chapter 6 that has, up to that point, only been mentioned by Fleur. What is it, and who brings it up?

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

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

8. How does Fleur meet Lady Edwina?

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

10. What happens in January of 1950 that begins to shed light on Sir Quentin's intentions?

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