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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How does Dottie behave when she comes down with the flu?
(a) Melancholy and distant.
(b) Whiny and needy like a small child.
(c) Angry at the whole world.
(d) More relaxed and much less an "English Rose."

2. Why doesn't Fleur leave her job and write full-time?
(a) Because she needs to be around the people on whom she has based some of her characters.
(b) Because she has become close to Lady Edwina.
(c) Because she needs the money and the job has caught her interest.
(d) Because she continues to mine the manuscripts for ideas.

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

4. Who interrupts this meeting between Maisie and Fleur?
(a) Solly Mendelsohn.
(b) Lady Edwina.
(c) Dottie.
(d) Gray Mauser.

5. Where does Leslie live after he moves out of his home with Dottie?
(a) With Fleur.
(b) With a young hairdresser with whom he has taken up.
(c) With Solly.
(d) With his new lover, a male poet.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. How does Fleur feel when Sir Quentin decides to take over the manuscript editing?

3. What does Fleur believe she might gain from a confrontation with Mr. Alexander, even though she doesn't want one?

4. Where did Fleur first meet and interview with Sir Quentin?

5. What kind of secret meetings does Warrender Chase hold in the novel?

Short Essay Questions

1. How did Fleur feel about spending the evening in pub with Gray Mauser after her argument with Maisie?

2. How does Fleur react to the beginning manuscripts of the memoirs when she first begins her work?

3. What convinced Fleur that Sir Quentin had begun acting out an evil plan on the members of the Autobiographical Association?

4. What is the basis for the argument between Maisie Young and Fleur in Chapter 5?

5. Why did Fleur bring her friends, Theo and Audrey, in to read the proofs of Warrender Chase for her?

6. What is Fleur's frame of mind at the beginning of the novel, and why?

7. Describe Fleur's impressions of Sir Quentin Oliver upon their first meeting.

8. What happens in January of 1950 that begins to shed light on Sir Quentin's intentions?

9. Explain Fleur's confusion, early on, about her novel, Warrender Chase and how it related to the events with the Association.

10. How had Fleur originally come up with the idea for her novel, Warrender Chase?

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