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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 is Fleur's greatest concern upon learning the tragic news of the suicide of one of the Association's members?
2. What does Fleur do when they can not find her manuscripts?
3. Who interrupts the argument between Fleur and Sir Quentin?
4. Dottie comes to see Fleur when she returns to the city to tell her what?
5. When Lady Edwina realizes that her son has been up to no good, how does she react to Fleur?
Short Essay Questions
1. Even though Fleur and Dottie have quite a tumultuous relationship, after Sir Quentin's death, she keeps Fleur well-informed about the other members of the Autobiographical Association. Describe what happens to any two members.
2. When Fleur runs into Mrs. Wilks in Chapter 7, what does Fleur observe about her?
3. In Chapter 9, yet another character points out a correlation between Warrender Chase and reality. Who is it, and what is pointed out?
4. What was it that Fleur scolded herself when she determined who had likely stolen the manuscript from her room?
5. Before Fleur leaves the flat, Lady Edwina gives her something in secret. When she reads it later, what does she find?
6. What is Fleur's reaction when Dottie calls her to tell her of Sir Quentin's death?
7. Fleur's job at the Association has changed by Chapter 7. What are her duties now?
8. As Fleur goes to bed the night after the meeting with the publisher, about what can she not stop thinking ?
9. What is the traumatic news Fleur receives near the end of Chapter 8?
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
Muriel Spark intentionally leaves character motivation out of Loitering with Intent. Her main character, Fleur Talbot, discusses not disclosing Warrender Chase's motivation for his evil behavior, merely the effects of his evil actions.
Discuss the concept of motivation and why you think Spark doesn't focus on the motivation of her characters' actions. Do you think this affects the reader's impressions of the novel?
Essay Topic 2
Writers can describe the values of a culture or a society through characters who succeed in the culture, or conversely, are alienated from society. How do this novel's characters, through their success or alienation, reveal the 1949 London society's assumptions or moral values?
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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