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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 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. How does Lady Edwina react upon receiving the tragic news of the suicide of one of the Association's members?

3. Even though Fleur insists that she started her novel well before beginning her job at the Autobiographical Association, the publisher ignores her and refuses to publish it because:

4. Who is Mrs. Fisher?

5. On what grounds has Sir Quentin threatened to sue for libel?

Short Essay Questions

1. Before Fleur leaves the flat, Lady Edwina gives her something in secret. When she reads it later, what does she find?

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

3. When her novel is ultimately published, how does Fleur initially react?

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

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

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

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

8. How does Sir Quentin lure Fleur to his office after she retypes her manuscript and gives the copies to Solly?

9. 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.

10. What is Fleur's reaction when Dottie calls her to tell her of Sir Quentin's death?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Fleur describes how the attitudes of both Beryl Tims and the Baronne Clotilde du Loiret have been affected by their histories. Discuss how one of these characters might view the role of women in current society. Examine their emotional responses in particular.

Essay Topic 2

Fleur Talbot, as an author, seems to spend her life observing, categorizing and accumulating ideas for her writing. Discuss how this impacts her life. Does it get in her way? Do you think most authors work this way?

Essay Topic 3

Fleur states that she is suspicious of anyone claiming a moral imperative as a justification for his actions. What is about such a justification that might make one's true motives seem suspect? Compare how this concept is used in the novel to another example, from recent history or literature, in which a moral obligation is ultimately exposed as false justification.

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