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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 news does Fleur receive from Lady Edwina's nurse that evening, after she's learned that her novel won't be published?
(a) That Sir Eric Findlay has committed suicide.
(b) That Egbert Delaney has committed suicide.
(c) That Lady Bernice has committed suicide.
(d) That Mrs. Wilks has committed suicide.

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

3. What is Fleur's greatest concern upon learning the tragic news of the suicide of one of the Association's members?
(a) Whether or not she should send her concern in a card or simply make a phone call.
(b) That she will no longer have a job.
(c) That her novel is unfolding in real life.
(d) That this is only the first of many unsettling events.

4. When she looks through pages of the memoirs, what does Fleur see?
(a) That Sir Quentin has changed all of the writing to read as if he himself had written it.
(b) Notes in Sir Quentin's handwriting of passages from her novel.
(c) Parts of her manuscript, scattered throughout the pages.
(d) That all of her changes and writing have been removed.

5. What does Edwina say to Fleur when she goes to see her after learning Sir Quentin is out?
(a) "Suicide is such an ugly event. My entire week has been ruined."
(b) "Maybe it was not suicide after all."
(c) "Suicide. Too young for such a tragic death."
(d) "Suicide. Just like the woman in your novel."

Short Answer Questions

1. Lady Edwina lived until she was 98 years old. She'd outlived her son and inherited his wealth; who inherited her fortune when she died?

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

3. Dottie finally realizes Fleur has stolen back the manuscript from her flat, and calls Fleur demanding to know how she got in. What does Fleur tell her?

4. How does Fleur react when Sir Quentin informs her that his mother is not of sound mind and that she should disregard any promises made about an inheritance?

5. In Chapter 12, Fleur expands on her narration of the present, reminding us that she is relating the adventures with the Autobiographical Association from a future perspective. What is it that prompts the policeman in the graveyard, in the summer of 1950, to say to Fleur, "Loitering with Intent?"

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

10. Before Fleur works out a plan to retrieve her manuscript, fate intervenes and presents her with a way to do so. What happens?

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