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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 Sir Quentin get Fleur to return to his flat?
(a) He calls and threatens to call the police on her for taking papers from his office.
(b) He calls and tells her he'd like to discuss a serious matter.
(c) He sends Lady Edwina over to invite Fleur for dinner and not take 'no' for an answer.
(d) He has Beryl Tims call and say that Edwina is not well and asking for her.

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) Warrender Chase and his prayer meetings.
(b) Warrender Chase's infidelity.
(c) Her inability to give Warrender Chase an heir.
(d) Her unrequited love for Warrender Chase.

3. Who does Dottie tell Fleur that she enjoys sleeping with, even though she just explained earlier that doing so is a sacrifice?
(a) Fleur's friend Wally.
(b) Sir Quentin.
(c) Leslie.
(d) Revisson Doe.

4. Where does Fleur go after the reviews for Warrender Chase come out?
(a) Edwina's house.
(b) London.
(c) Wally's cottage.
(d) Paris.

5. Fleur believes she saw someone in Dottie's window the night before. Who is it?
(a) Sir Quentin.
(b) Solly Mendelsohn.
(c) Revisson Doe.
(d) Leslie.

Short Answer Questions

1. When Lady Edwina realizes that her son has been up to no good, how does she react to Fleur?

2. To what is the suicide attributed?

3. What does Fleur disclose to the reader in Chapter 10?

4. What is that Sir Quentin has been enforcing upon the members?

5. What is the primary reason Fleur feels so indignant about being accused of libeling the Autobiographical Association?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does Fleur happen upon the title of the book she is now narrating?

2. After Fleur retrieves her manuscript and goes home, she is visited by Dottie. What happens during this visit?

3. Fleur mentions a parallel to another novel, not of her writing, at this point. What novel and what parallel?

4. 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.

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

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

7. What is the traumatic news Fleur receives near the end of Chapter 8?

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

9. As Fleur goes to bed the night after the meeting with the publisher, about what can she not stop thinking ?

10. When her novel is ultimately published, how does Fleur initially react?

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