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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 4.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What explanation does Fleur give for keeping all the letters she receives, including those from a book store to which she owed money?
(a) She fears one day suffering from dementia and wants references to her past.
(b) She has no explanation.
(c) She suffers from Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder.
(d) She wants to use them as material for a future book.

2. How much progress have the members of the Autobiographical Association made when Fleur begins her employment?
(a) None have made it past the first chapter.
(b) Two of them have not started, but most are nearly finished.
(c) Two of them are nearly finished, but the rest are just getting started.
(d) They are each approximately halfway through their memoirs.

3. Fleur realizes in the first chapter that one of her senses has a more keen memory than the others. Which one is it?
(a) Her sight.
(b) Her sense of smell.
(c) Her hearing.
(d) Her sense of taste.

4. What kind of secret meetings does Warrender Chase hold in the novel?
(a) Prayer meetings.
(b) Liasons with his lover, Charlotte.
(c) A secret society of writers.
(d) An anonymous charitable organization.

5. What is the single sentence, overheard by Fleur in restaurant, that had inspired her novel?
(a) "Who was he, this man we all wanted to meet?"
(b) "They were all gathered in the living room, waiting for him."
(c) "He came upon the group of them, silent and morose."
(d) "Mr. Chase cannot join us this evening. He is otherwise engaged."

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Dottie initially react to the members of the Autobiographical Association?

2. After seven weeks, why does Sir Quentin tell Fleur he wants to take over editing the manuscripts?

3. How does Fleur react to Dottie's criticism of the character, Marjorie, in her book?

4. Why does Dottie tell Fleur that she is upset?

5. What happens to the first publisher who offered Fleur a contract for Warrender Chase?

(see the answer key)

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