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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. On what does the former priest focus in his memoirs?
(a) He writes primarily of his time in the seminary.
(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) Proving that he was defrocked not for a lack of morals but for a loss of faith.
2. Where does Leslie live after he moves out of his home with Dottie?
(a) With Solly.
(b) With a young hairdresser with whom he has taken up.
(c) With Fleur.
(d) With his new lover, a male poet.
3. When Fleur first reads to Dottie from Warrender Chase, what is Dottie's reaction?
(a) She accuses Fleur of stealing ideas from the group.
(b) She thinks the funeral scene is too cold.
(c) She is confused by the plot line and can't keep the characters straight.
(d) She raves about what a fine writer Fleur has become.
4. Why does Mr. Alexander keep insisting that Fleur move into a larger room in the his boarding house?
(a) He has another boarder who wants Fleur's room.
(b) He knows she is considering a roommate and will need more space.
(c) Her room is overcrowded with books, papers and the evidence of constant visitors.
(d) His wife cannot stand Fleur and wants to charge her more rent.
5. What does Fleur begin to notice toward the end of January, 1950?
(a) That the Association members are becoming better writers.
(b) That Dottie and Leslie no longer live together.
(c) That Sir Quentin might be a decent sort, after all.
(d) The deterioration of the Association members.
Short Answer Questions
1. How does Maisie Young react to Fleur's room when she first visits?
2. What are Warrender Chase's intentions in Fleur's novel?
3. Who does Fleur run into at the Gilbert party?
4. Why does Dottie tell Fleur that she is upset?
5. How had her main character, Warrender Chase, distinguished himself before the events of the novel begin?
Short Essay Questions
1. How does Fleur spend that first meeting of the Association?
2. Why does Fleur invite Dottie to participate in the Autobiographical Association?
3. Fleur describes both Beryl Tims and Dottie, the wife of Fleur's lover, as "English Roses." What does she mean by this?
4. Explain Fleur's confusion, early on, about her novel, Warrender Chase and how it related to the events with the Association.
5. Fleur describes the day she is sitting in the graveyard working on a poem as the last day of a whole chunk of her life, although she isn't aware of it at the time. Why do you think she feels this way?
6. What new information does Dottie share with Fleur when they are nursing each other through the flu that further blurs the line between the reality of the Association and the fiction transpiring in the Warrender Chase manuscript?
7. How did Fleur feel about spending the evening in pub with Gray Mauser after her argument with Maisie?
8. How does Fleur react upon learning that Beryl Tims loves Sir Quentin?
9. How had Fleur originally come up with the idea for her novel, Warrender Chase?
10. An important parallel is drawn at the end of Chapter 6 that has, up to that point, only been mentioned by Fleur. What is it, and who brings it up?
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