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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 explain Mrs. Wilks' ranting?
(a) Says she'd been fasting too strictly.
(b) Hints that she might be suffering from a chronic illness.
(c) Says she had personal problems that had recently upset her.
(d) He indicates that her family has a history of mental illness.

2. What does Fleur disclose to the reader in Chapter 10?
(a) That her purpose is now to convey how Sir Quentin tried to destroy her novel and take its contents for his own use.
(b) That her purpose is to make sure she remains in Lady Edwina's will.
(c) That her purpose is to punish Dottie for her involvement in the loss of her manuscript.
(d) That her purpose is to determine why the suicide really happened.

3. Who does Fleur call for advice when she realizes she has no copy of her novel?
(a) Dottie.
(b) Solly.
(c) Lady Edwina.
(d) Leslie.

4. What is the primary reason Fleur feels so indignant about being accused of libeling the Autobiographical Association?
(a) To her, none of the characters seem overly similar.
(b) She formulated her characters and plot before she began working for Sir Quentin.
(c) She was very careful to change enough details that the characters, though similar, did not represent the members.
(d) The events in her story are vastly different from the events that have happened within the Association.

5. Fleur and Wally are joined by Gray Mauser while they are out for evening. What does he tell them?
(a) He tells them that he is no longer in love with Leslie.
(b) He tells them that Leslie and Dottie have gone off together to Italy.
(c) He tells them he will fight Dottie for Leslie's love upon his return.
(d) He tells them that the key to Leslie's flat is on his dresser.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Sir Quentin get Fleur to return to his flat?

2. What does Fleur receive the day after she sits in the graveyard and visits with the policeman?

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

4. What does Fleur do, by chance, that sends her gracefully into the fullness of her years, on her way, rejoicing?

5. When Fleur goes out with Wally, what does he tell her about Bucks Gilbert?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

4. What was Fleur's internal reaction to the tragic news in Chapter 8?

5. In Chapter 9, yet another character points out a correlation between Warrender Chase and reality. Who is it, and what is pointed out?

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

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

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

9. Why doesn't Fleur tell Edwina that she believes Sir Quentin is behind the theft of her manuscript?

10. When Fleur runs into Mrs. Wilks in Chapter 7, what does Fleur observe about her?

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