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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 3.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Dottie accuse Fleur of when Fleur seems displeased at her connections to the group?
(a) Trying to undermine Sir Quentin's work.
(b) Trying to steal the ideas of the members for her own work.
(c) Being jealous that she is getting close to them.
(d) Being jealous of her superior writing skills.

2. 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 has no explanation.
(b) She fears one day suffering from dementia and wants references to her past.
(c) She suffers from Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder.
(d) She wants to use them as material for a future book.

3. Why is Fleur initially so pleased with her new employer and his assistant?
(a) Because she sees much in their mannerisms and behaviors that will be useful in creating characters in her book.
(b) Because she realizes that they all have many interests in common.
(c) Because they agree to allow her time to work on her own writing during the day.
(d) Because they welcome her warmly and make her feel right at home.

4. Why does Fleur say she prefers writing fictionally over biographically?
(a) She has yet to meet anyone interesting enough about whom to write.
(b) She hates doing factual research.
(c) She finds fantasy much more interesting than real life.
(d) All the characters and the order of events are entirely up to her imagination.

5. On what does the former priest focus in his memoirs?
(a) Proving that he was defrocked not for a lack of morals but for a loss of faith.
(b) He focuses on what brought him into the church, rather than why he left.
(c) He focuses on his childhood, not writing about his time in the church at all.
(d) He writes primarily of his time in the seminary.

Short Answer Questions

1. How is the plot of Warrender Chase, the novel, influenced by Fleur's experience at the Autobiographical Association?

2. Sir Quentin says that Lady Edwina is asleep when the first meeting ends, so Fleur does not take her out for dinner. When does she next see Edwina?

3. How much progress have the members of the Autobiographical Association made when Fleur begins her employment?

4. What does Fleur decide to do with the manuscripts when she begins typing them out?

5. What does Lady Edwina say when her new nurse collects her from the Association meeting in Chapter 3?

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