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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. To what is the suicide attributed?
2. When she returns to Sir Quentin's flat after the suicide, Beryl Tims tells Fleur that Sir Quentin had to go out. What does Fleur do?
3. What is Fleur's greatest concern upon learning the tragic news of the suicide of one of the Association's members?
4. Fleur realizes four things simultaneously in Chapter 7. She hears the sound of Beryl Tims heels approaching, Sir Quentin opening a deep drawer in his desk, the repetition in her mind of Sir Quentin's comment about her having delusions of grandeur, and what else?
5. When Fleur discovers her original manuscript missing, who does she first assume must have taken it?
Short Essay Questions
1. After Fleur retrieves her manuscript and goes home, she is visited by Dottie. What happens during this visit?
2. Fleur consults her friend, Solly Mendelsohn, when she realizes that the publisher now has the only copy of her manuscript. Why?
3. Before Fleur leaves the flat, Lady Edwina gives her something in secret. When she reads it later, what does she find?
4. What does Fleur first think might be the problem with her novel when the publisher requests to meet with her in person?
5. When her novel is ultimately published, how does Fleur initially react?
6. Why doesn't Fleur tell Edwina that she believes Sir Quentin is behind the theft of her manuscript?
7. 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.
8. When Fleur runs into Mrs. Wilks in Chapter 7, what does Fleur observe about her?
9. How does Sir Quentin lure Fleur to his office after she retypes her manuscript and gives the copies to Solly?
10. Fleur desperately wants to do what when she gets home with her manuscript? What does she do instead?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Describe as much as you can about the culture in which Fleur lives based on descriptions from the novel. How much of that culture is revealed through her eyes? Could this novel be set anywhere else? Could the story have transpired, in tact, had it taken place in the US, or Shanghai or Paris or Munich in 1949? How might it have differed had it been moved from England?
Essay Topic 2
Fleur states that she is suspicious of anyone claiming a moral imperative as a justification for his actions. What is about such a justification that might make one's true motives seem suspect? Compare how this concept is used in the novel to another example, from recent history or literature, in which a moral obligation is ultimately exposed as false justification.
Essay Topic 3
A recurring theme in literature is the classic conflict between passion and responsibility. How does Fleur confront honoring her passion for finding the story with her responsibilities? Describe the nature of the conflict, how it affects the character, and its importance to the story.
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