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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Fleur feel when Sir Quentin decides to take over the manuscript editing?

2. By December of 1949, where is Fleur's primary focus?

3. Where did Fleur first meet and interview with Sir Quentin?

4. How does Fleur define the word 'frankness?'

5. What does Dottie accuse Fleur of when Fleur seems displeased at her connections to the group?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does Dottie anger Fleur when discussing Warrender Chase in Chapter 3?

2. When "Bucks" Gilbert hosts a party, Fleur runs into her old friend Wally. What happens between them?

3. Fleur and Dottie argue about whether or not Fleur should stay on at the job. Why does Fleur believe she should?

4. What convinced Fleur that Sir Quentin had begun acting out an evil plan on the members of the Autobiographical Association?

5. Describe the relationship between Fleur and her lover, Leslie.

6. How does recounting her adventures with the Autobiographical Association make Fleur feel about the differences between fiction and nonfiction?

7. Fleur describes the day she is sitting in the graveyard working on a poem as the last day of a whole chunk of her life, although she isn't aware of it at the time. Why do you think she feels this way?

8. Why does Fleur invite Dottie to participate in the Autobiographical Association?

9. How does Fleur spend that first meeting of the Association?

10. What new information does Dottie share with Fleur when they are nursing each other through the flu that further blurs the line between the reality of the Association and the fiction transpiring in the Warrender Chase manuscript?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Discuss Fleur's friendships. She has both male and female friends, and as with most people, each of her friends appeals to her differently. Who are her closest friends? Why are they important to her? Compare and contrast at least three of her relationships in terms of their basis.

Essay Topic 2

Describe Fleur Talbot as "character type," as she does with Beryl Tims and Dottie, the "English Roses." What would her character type be named? Who else might fit into this character type - another literary character, someone in a movie, someone from your life? Why? How does that person compare to Fleur?

Essay Topic 3

Writers can describe the values of a culture or a society through characters who succeed in the culture, or conversely, are alienated from society. How do this novel's characters, through their success or alienation, reveal the 1949 London society's assumptions or moral values?

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