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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What did Fleur add to the first chapter of Sir Eric Findlay's story?
(a) She had him ride the rockinghorse with the butler rather than the nanny.
(b) She portrayed him as being locked in a cupboard polishing silver while his nanny rode his rockinghorse with the butler.
(c) She wrote about the butler stealing his rockinghorse to punish young Eric after he fell off and broke his nose.
(d) She wrote that his parents took his favorite rockinghorse away when he rode it without permission.

3. Because Fleur continues to hear one particular phrase repeated by Association members, she becomes convinced of what?
(a) That the members are stealing material from each other.
(b) That their manuscripts are all beginning to sound the same.
(c) That Sir Quentin has begun acting out an evil plan for them members.
(d) That Beryl Tims has mixed up the manuscripts.

4. What do Gray Mauser and Fleur discuss when they visit a pub together?
(a) How he might break off his relationship with Leslie.
(b) Why silk ties might be sex symbols.
(c) His troubles with Leslie, who had gone to Ireland with Dottie.
(d) How angry she was feeling toward Sir Quentin.

5. Why does Revisson Doe agree to work with Fleur?
(a) He believes that through Fleur, he can learn more about Sir Quentin.
(b) He owes her old a friend a favor.
(c) He finds her oddly appealing and wants to get closer to her.
(d) He believes she has potential and that her future novels will be good.

6. What does Fleur do with her companion at the party?
(a) They eat most of the food at the party.
(b) They get heavily intoxicated.
(c) They dance, even though no music playing.
(d) She convinces him to publish her next novel, sight unseen.

7. How does Maisie Young react to Fleur's room when she first visits?
(a) She is amazed at its compact size, revealing an ignorance of the realities of being poor.
(b) She tries to convince Fleur to move into her estate.
(c) She loves the tiny room, viewing it as one might view the home of a Hobbit.
(d) She feels sorry for Fleur, wishing aloud she had a larger home.

8. How does Dottie describe Fleur's character, Marjorie?
(a) She says she is evil and not very womanly.
(b) She wonders why Marjorie is so homely.
(c) She says she is too much a vixen.
(d) She calls her sly and troublesome.

9. What does Fleur do while at home for two weeks with the flu?
(a) She takes a hiatus from writing altogether.
(b) She begins a new novel.
(c) She digs into Sir Quentin's past.
(d) She finishes her novel.

10. What romance is introduced in Chapter 4?
(a) Dottie and an unnamed lover.
(b) Beryl Sims and Sir Quentin.
(c) Solly and Lady Edwina.
(d) Fleur and Solly.

11. What does Fleur begin to notice toward the end of January, 1950?
(a) That Dottie and Leslie no longer live together.
(b) The deterioration of the Association members.
(c) That the Association members are becoming better writers.
(d) That Sir Quentin might be a decent sort, after all.

12. What happens to the first publisher who offered Fleur a contract for Warrender Chase?
(a) She, Solly and Lady Edwina decide the contract is not acceptable and reject it.
(b) Lady Edwina confides that she knows the publisher and he is unethical.
(c) Solly convinces her that she should accept it.
(d) Solly offers to renegotiate it for her.

13. What is the title of the novel Leslie has begun writing?
(a) Two Ways.
(b) One is Never Enough.
(c) My Double-Edged Life.
(d) Both Ways.

14. When Fleur first reads to Dottie from Warrender Chase, what is Dottie's reaction?
(a) She is confused by the plot line and can't keep the characters straight.
(b) She thinks the funeral scene is too cold.
(c) She accuses Fleur of stealing ideas from the group.
(d) She raves about what a fine writer Fleur has become.

15. How does Fleur feel when Sir Quentin decides to take over the manuscript editing?
(a) She didn't care one way or the other.
(b) She was disappointed because the members liked her work.
(c) She was angry because she loved the work.
(d) She is glad to be rid of it because they'd started writing about their romantic adventures.

Short Answer Questions

1. When Fleur phones Dottie after their visit and inquires if something is bothering her, what does Dottie say?

2. Why had Fleur never thought highly of Gray Mauser before their conversation at the pub?

3. Where does Leslie live after he moves out of his home with Dottie?

4. To what does Fleur compare the members of the Association by the end of January, 1950?

5. What does Dottie first write when she joins the Association?

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