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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. 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?
(a) Her manservant and her nurse, who had married.
(b) Solly Mendelsohn.
(c) Dottie.
(d) Fleur, of course.

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

3. Dottie comes to see Fleur when she returns to the city to tell her what?
(a) That Sir Quentin had been killed by Association members who realized he was trying to control them.
(b) That Sir Quentin had succumbed to a massive heart attack, probably brought on by Dexedrine.
(c) That Sir Quentin died in a car crash on the way to his retreat.
(d) That Sir Quentin died alone in a car crash in the city.

4. Where does Fleur find her manuscript after arriving at Dottie's flat?
(a) In the bottom of her black knitting bag.
(b) Arranged under the tea tray in the butler's pantry.
(c) In the bottom of her clothes cupboard.
(d) Under her four-poster bed.

5. 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 Mrs. Wilks has committed suicide.
(d) That Lady Bernice has committed suicide.

Short Answer Questions

1. When she returns to Sir Quentin's flat after the suicide, Beryl Tims tells Fleur that Sir Quentin had to go out. What does Fleur do?

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

3. When Fleur stays up all night going through her manuscript, what does she realize?

4. Where do Sir Quentin and Beryl Tims have to go after the suicide?

5. 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?

Short Essay Questions

1. 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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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