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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 try to justify his behavior to Fleur?
(a) He says that he just wants to be loved, and the Association members give him the devotion he craves.
(b) He says that if John Henry Cardinal Newman can form a group of spiritual followers, then so can he.
(c) He says that John Henry Cardinal Newman told him to form a group of followers and carry on his work.
(d) He says that he is a much better leader than John Henry Cardinal Newman ever was.

2. Fleur realizes four things simultaneously in Chapter 7. She hears the sound of Beryl Tims heels approaching, Sir Quentin opening a deep drawer in his desk, the repetition in her mind of Sir Quentin's comment about her having delusions of grandeur, and what else?
(a) That she must leave her job with the Association at once.
(b) The sound of Lady Edwina having an accident in the parlor.
(c) That Sir Findlay had arrived.
(d) The realization that his words came directly from her manuscript of Warrender Chase.

3. In the novel's present day, Fleur lives in Paris. Who has just been there to visit her?
(a) Maisie Young, who runs a successful vegetarian restaurant.
(b) Egbert Delaney, recently released from rehabilitation after exposing himself in the park.
(c) Dottie, her current husband and the ugliest children Fleur has ever seen.
(d) Solly Mendelsohn, on holiday from Hampstead Heath.

4. What does Sir Quentin inquire about Fleur's future?
(a) If she has any marital prospects.
(b) If she believes her novels will succeed.
(c) If she plans to live abroad.
(d) If she would like to become a member of the Association rather than merely an employee.

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 Mrs. Wilks has committed suicide.
(c) That Lady Bernice has committed suicide.
(d) That Egbert Delaney has committed suicide.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Fleur do when they can not find her manuscripts?

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

3. How does Fleur suggest Lady Edwina act as her accomplice?

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

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

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

10. How does Fleur react to her own novel as she goes through it, typing up additional copies?

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