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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. When Fleur calls the publisher's office to ask for the typescript back, what is she told?
(a) That she will have to speak with the publisher directly, and he has gone for the day.
(b) That it has been destroyed.
(c) That it will be sent by courier the following day.
(d) That the papers have been misfiled, but once they are located, they will be sent to her.

2. 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) Leslie.
(c) Sir Quentin.
(d) Revisson Doe.

3. 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?"
(a) She asks him to name one crime for which he has never arrested anyone.
(b) She asks him what, if he had to invent a crime for someone writing a book, he might suggest.
(c) She asks him what crime he might accuse her of, if any, for sitting on a gravestone.
(d) She asks him what he last arrested someone for that day.

4. Who does Fleur phone to come help her and Lady Edwina search for the manuscript?
(a) Solly.
(b) Theo and Audrey.
(c) Leslie.
(d) Dottie.

5. Dottie comes to see Fleur when she returns to the city to tell her what?
(a) That Sir Quentin died alone in a car crash in the city.
(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 had been killed by Association members who realized he was trying to control them.

Short Answer Questions

1. Fleur calls her publisher again asking for the manuscript of Warrender Chase. Why do they tell her it was destroyed?

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

3. Fleur believes she saw someone in Dottie's window the night before. Who is it?

4. To what is the suicide attributed?

5. Fleur has a job interview at the BBC, but does not get the job. Why, when she looks back, does she remember this fondly?

Short Essay Questions

1. Fleur desperately wants to do what when she gets home with her manuscript? What does she do instead?

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

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

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

5. What does Fleur first think might be the problem with her novel when the publisher requests to meet with her in person?

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

7. 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.

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

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

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

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