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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. What does Fleur receive the day after she sits in the graveyard and visits with the policeman?
(a) A letter from an American publisher wanting to publish Warrender Chase.
(b) A phone call from a new publisher inquiring about her next novel.
(c) A letter from Triad Press asking her to make an appointment with them right away.
(d) A letter from a barrister informing her that she would be remitted by Sir Quentin's estate for his unlawful use of her material.

2. One of the characters in Warrender Chase also commits suicide, and it is attributed to the character having been driven mad. What is supposed to have driven her mad?
(a) Her unrequited love for Warrender Chase.
(b) Warrender Chase and his prayer meetings.
(c) Warrender Chase's infidelity.
(d) Her inability to give Warrender Chase an heir.

3. Where do Sir Quentin and Beryl Tims have to go after the suicide?
(a) To visit the relatives of the deceased.
(b) To the Coroner's Inquest.
(c) To see the attorney for the Association.
(d) To the morgue.

4. What is that Fleur realizes Sir Quentin has been giving the Association members?
(a) Marijuana.
(b) Dexedrine.
(c) Opium.
(d) Whiskey.

5. When Lady Edwina realizes that her son has been up to no good, how does she react to Fleur?
(a) She refuses to take sides or get involved.
(b) She lashes out at Fleur, demanding to know why she would assume he could do something so evil.
(c) She remains completely supportive of Fleur.
(d) She defends Sir Quentin.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Fleur see in Sir Quentin's drawer?

2. Fleur's job has changed from altering the manuscripts to what?

3. Who is Mrs. Fisher?

4. How does Lady Edwina react upon receiving the tragic news of the suicide of one of the Association's members?

5. Fleur has been given pages from Sir Quentin's private diary. What does she find written there?

Short Essay Questions

1. Describe how at least one of the maxims Fleur remembers from childhood helps direct her actions as attempts to get her manuscript back.

2. What is Fleur's reaction when Dottie calls her to tell her of Sir Quentin's death?

3. Even though Fleur and Dottie have quite a tumultuous relationship, after Sir Quentin's death, she keeps Fleur well-informed about the other members of the Autobiographical Association. Describe what happens to any two members.

4. Chapter 11 is filled with a great deal of information, often through Fleur's narrations from the present as she remembers the events of her past. Describe two concepts on which she sheds light at this point in the book.

5. What realization does Fleur come to regarding her novel, Warrender Chase, when Sir Quentin calls her into his office in Chapter 7?

6. How does Sir Quentin lure Fleur to his office after she retypes her manuscript and gives the copies to Solly?

7. Fleur consults her friend, Solly Mendelsohn, when she realizes that the publisher now has the only copy of her manuscript. Why?

8. Before Fleur leaves the flat, Lady Edwina gives her something in secret. When she reads it later, what does she find?

9. What was it that Fleur scolded herself when she determined who had likely stolen the manuscript from her room?

10. Fleur's job at the Association has changed by Chapter 7. What are her duties now?

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