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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. What does Fleur do when they can not find her manuscripts?
2. How does Lady Edwina react upon receiving the tragic news of the suicide of one of the Association's members?
3. What does Lady Edwina do before Fleur leaves Sir Quentin's flat?
4. With her manuscript missing, what does Fleur fears that it could be in anyone's hands, being put to any sort of use. What is her other concern about it at this point?
5. 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:
Short Essay Questions
1. As Fleur goes to bed the night after the meeting with the publisher, about what can she not stop thinking ?
2. Fleur's job at the Association has changed by Chapter 7. What are her duties now?
3. What was it that Fleur scolded herself when she determined who had likely stolen the manuscript from her room?
4. How does Fleur react to her own novel as she goes through it, typing up additional copies?
5. What realization does Fleur come to regarding her novel, Warrender Chase, when Sir Quentin calls her into his office in Chapter 7?
6. Before Fleur works out a plan to retrieve her manuscript, fate intervenes and presents her with a way to do so. What happens?
7. What does Fleur first think might be the problem with her novel when the publisher requests to meet with her in person?
8. Before Fleur leaves the flat, Lady Edwina gives her something in secret. When she reads it later, what does she find?
9. Fleur consults her friend, Solly Mendelsohn, when she realizes that the publisher now has the only copy of her manuscript. Why?
10. Fleur mentions a parallel to another novel, not of her writing, at this point. What novel and what parallel?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Women writers often question traditional female roles, and Mariel Spark is no exception. One in particular is the role of remaining subordinate to men while simultaneously taking care of them. How, in Loitering with Intent, does Spark question and discuss this female role?
Essay Topic 2
Describe as much as you can about the culture in which Fleur lives based on descriptions from the novel. How much of that culture is revealed through her eyes? Could this novel be set anywhere else? Could the story have transpired, in tact, had it taken place in the US, or Shanghai or Paris or Munich in 1949? How might it have differed had it been moved from England?
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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