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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 Sir Quentin try to justify his behavior to Fleur?

2. Who does Fleur see for the last time as she leaves Sir Quentin's drawing room?

3. When she looks through pages of the memoirs, what does Fleur see?

4. 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?

5. What is that Sir Quentin has been enforcing upon the members?

Short Essay Questions

1. What was it that Fleur scolded herself when she determined who had likely stolen the manuscript from her room?

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

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

4. What was Fleur's internal reaction to the tragic news in Chapter 8?

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

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

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

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 does Fleur first think might be the problem with her novel when the publisher requests to meet with her in person?

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

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

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

Fleur and Edwina develop a strong, albeit unlikely friendship. Compare and contrast these two women. Discuss their friendship and how they influence each other.

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