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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. When she looks through pages of the memoirs, what does Fleur see?
2. 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?
3. Where does Sir Quentin decide to take the Association members?
4. Which of the Association members dutifully visits Sir Quentin's grave daily, and converses with him there?
5. As a child, Fleur remembers having had to write a series of maxims in her copy book. These included: "Necessity is the mother of invention," "all is not gold that glistens," "honesty is the best policy" and what else?
Short Essay Questions
1. Why doesn't Fleur tell Edwina that she believes Sir Quentin is behind the theft of her manuscript?
2. How does Fleur react to her own novel as she goes through it, typing up additional copies?
3. What was it that Fleur scolded herself when she determined who had likely stolen the manuscript from her room?
4. After Fleur retrieves her manuscript and goes home, she is visited by Dottie. What happens during this visit?
5. What is Fleur's reaction when Dottie calls her to tell her of Sir Quentin's death?
6. As Fleur goes to bed the night after the meeting with the publisher, about what can she not stop thinking ?
7. Before Fleur leaves the flat, Lady Edwina gives her something in secret. When she reads it later, what does she find?
8. In Chapter 9, yet another character points out a correlation between Warrender Chase and reality. Who is it, and what is pointed out?
9. What is the traumatic news Fleur receives near the end of Chapter 8?
10. 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.
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
An effective piece of writing does not merely end, it concludes. Quality endings range being conclusive in every sense to settling the reader into comfort with uncertainty. Discuss the ending of Loitering with Intent. Explain how and why it concludes the story. Do you find it effective or not?
Essay Topic 2
Sometimes a character who appears briefly in a novel, or who doesn't actually appear at all, still impacts the story significantly. Does this novel contain characters like this? Discuss how minor characters in Loitering with Intent move the story forward or affect the development of the major characters.
Essay Topic 3
Examine, through your impressions from Loitering with Intent, Muriel Spark's perspective on religion. The book includes at least three hints of her specific opinions about religion. Often, writers create metaphors through parallels - what does she use as a parallel to organized religion, and how does it describe her thoughts on the matter?
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