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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 passage does Fleur find in Cellini, the book she sits down to read to ease her worries after she leaves Sir Quentin's flat?

2. How does Sir Quentin get Fleur to return to his flat?

3. Which of the Association members dutifully visits Sir Quentin's grave daily, and converses with him there?

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

5. 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?

Short Essay Questions

1. Chapter 11 is filled with a great deal of information, often through Fleur's narrations from the present as she remembers the events of her past. Describe two concepts on which she sheds light at this point in the book.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

What would you have done if you'd found yourself in Fleur's position at the Autobiographical Association? Would you have stayed on? Why or why not? Discuss the ethical implications of your decision.

Essay Topic 2

The element of time is used in creative ways in literature. A sequence of events might be told other than chronologically; sometimes time is suspended, accelerated or slowed down. How does Spark use time as a framework for the novel? Do not merely summarize plot points, rather, discuss how her use of time affects the story.

Essay Topic 3

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?

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