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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 receive the day after she sits in the graveyard and visits with the policeman?

2. Who is Mrs. Fisher?

3. Lady Edwina lived until she was 98 years old. She'd outlived her son and inherited his wealth; who inherited her fortune when she died?

4. Fleur has a job interview at the BBC, but does not get the job. Why, when she looks back, does she remember this fondly?

5. When Fleur and Wally run into Gray Mauser, what does Fleur tell him?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why doesn't Fleur tell Edwina that she believes Sir Quentin is behind the theft of her manuscript?

2. Fleur mentions a parallel to another novel, not of her writing, at this point. What novel and what parallel?

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

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

5. How does Fleur react to her own novel as she goes through it, typing up additional copies?

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

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

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

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

10. As Fleur goes to bed the night after the meeting with the publisher, about what can she not stop thinking ?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

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 2

Conflict between parent and child is a common theme in literature. This novel is no exception, although the parent/child conflict does not involve the main character. Analyze the sources of the parent/child conflict in Loitering with Intent and explain how it contributes to the development of the story.

Essay Topic 3

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?

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