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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. Who interrupts the argument between Fleur and Sir Quentin?

2. When Fleur calls the publisher's office to ask for the typescript back, what is she told?

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

4. 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?

5. What does Edwina say to Fleur when she goes to see her after learning Sir Quentin is out?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. Before Fleur works out a plan to retrieve her manuscript, fate intervenes and presents her with a way to do so. What happens?

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

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

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

7. What is the traumatic news Fleur receives near the end of Chapter 8?

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

9. Describe how at least one of the maxims Fleur remembers from childhood helps direct her actions as attempts to get her manuscript back.

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

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 2

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 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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