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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 does Fleur get rid of Maisie when she can tolerate her vapid conversation no longer?
(a) She feigns having to make a phone call.
(b) She suddenly remembers a meeting she must attend.
(c) She begins coughing and indicates her flu might be returning.
(d) She intimates that a secret lover may be stopping by.

2. What is the title of the novel Leslie has begun writing?
(a) Two Ways.
(b) Both Ways.
(c) My Double-Edged Life.
(d) One is Never Enough.

3. Who had visited Fleur's room while she was out dancing?
(a) Leslie.
(b) Dottie.
(c) An unknown caller.
(d) Beryl.

4. How does Fleur view Leslie's infidelity?
(a) She wishes he would leave his wife and marry her.
(b) She thinks his ego is overblown.
(c) She feels sorry for him and believes he is unable to cope with his own problems.
(d) She believes he is unfaithful to Dottie because Dottie is so unattractive.

5. Fleur realizes in the first chapter that one of her senses has a more keen memory than the others. Which one is it?
(a) Her sense of smell.
(b) Her sense of taste.
(c) Her hearing.
(d) Her sight.

Short Answer Questions

1. To what does Fleur compare the members of the Association by the end of January, 1950?

2. Which character becomes more important to the story in Chapter 3?

3. Fleur lives surrounded by books, yet does not consider herself a bibliophile. Why not?

4. How had her main character, Warrender Chase, distinguished himself before the events of the novel begin?

5. Who begins taking Sunday afternoon walks with Fleur and Lady Edwina?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. 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?

4. How does Fleur meet Lady Edwina?

5. How had Fleur originally come up with the idea for her novel, Warrender Chase?

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

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

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

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

10. Fleur calls in sick to work after the party. What happens when she does that shows how Fleur's attitude has changed toward her job?

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