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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. Sir Quentin offered Fleur wages of a "1936 vintage, and this was 1949, modern times." Why did she accept the position?
(a) For the promise of a totally new experience.
(b) Sir Quentin promised to raise her wages if she proved herself worthy after the first week.
(c) Sir Quentin promised to help find a publisher for her novel.
(d) She had been unemployed for so long that she was on the brink of losing her room.

2. How does Fleur suggest Dottie cope with her suffering over Leslie's infidelities?
(a) She tells Dottie to leave Leslie altogether.
(b) She helps Dottie plan revenge.
(c) She encourages Dottie to find an outside lover of her own.
(d) She suggests Dottie join the Association and write her own autobiography.

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

4. What does Fleur do while at home for two weeks with the flu?
(a) She takes a hiatus from writing altogether.
(b) She digs into Sir Quentin's past.
(c) She begins a new novel.
(d) She finishes her novel.

5. After the party, Fleur goes out with Wally McConnachie. Where do they go?
(a) They stroll along the Thames and chat.
(b) They go to dinner, then back to Fleur's room.
(c) They visit a poetry reading.
(d) They spend the whole night dancing.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who does Fleur run into at the Gilbert party?

2. How does Dottie initially react to the members of the Autobiographical Association?

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

4. Who serves as the primary comic relief in the early part of the book?

5. Who takes care of Fleur when she is ill?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. How does Sir Quentin introduce Fleur to the Autobiographical Association members the first time, and why?

3. How does Dottie anger Fleur when discussing Warrender Chase in Chapter 3?

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

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

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

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

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

9. Fleur describes both Beryl Tims and Dottie, the wife of Fleur's lover, as "English Roses." What does she mean by this?

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

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