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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. What happens when Fleur calls in sick after spending the night dancing with Wally?
(a) Beryl offers to send Dottie over with soup.
(b) Sir Quentin warns her that further absences will get her fired.
(c) Beryl asks for a medical certificate, and Fleur tells her to go to Hell.
(d) Lady Edwina tells her she will cover for her.

2. How does Fleur feel after this visit with Gray?
(a) Jealous that he has been so involved with Leslie.
(b) Worried that Gray might do himself harm.
(c) Her rage has subsided and she believes him much more sane than any members of the Association.
(d) Glad that Leslie has returned, at least temporarily, to Dottie.

3. Why is Fleur initially so pleased with her new employer and his assistant?
(a) Because they welcome her warmly and make her feel right at home.
(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 she sees much in their mannerisms and behaviors that will be useful in creating characters in her book.

4. How does Fleur view Leslie's infidelity?
(a) She believes he is unfaithful to Dottie because Dottie is so unattractive.
(b) She feels sorry for him and believes he is unable to cope with his own problems.
(c) She wishes he would leave his wife and marry her.
(d) She thinks his ego is overblown.

5. What did Fleur tell Dottie when she invited her into the Association?
(a) She suggested that one of the members might make a good lover.
(b) She asked her to spy on Sir Quentin and Beryl Tims.
(c) She suggested she get to know Lady Edwina.
(d) She told her she suspected Sir Quentin was using the members, but warned her to use it only as a source of amusement.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why hadn't four of the Association members come to recent meetings?

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

3. Who is Revisson Doe?

4. How does Dottie react when Fleur tells her that she thinks the entire Association has become obsessed with having Sir Quentin's approval?

5. Fleur realizes in the first chapter that one of her senses has a more keen memory than the others. Which one is it?

Short Essay Questions

1. Describe the relationship between Fleur and her lover, Leslie.

2. How does Fleur meet Lady Edwina?

3. How does recounting her adventures with the Autobiographical Association make Fleur feel about the differences between fiction and nonfiction?

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

5. Fleur calls in sick to work after the party. What happens when she does that shows how Fleur's attitude has changed toward her job?

6. 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?

7. How does Sir Quentin introduce Fleur to the Autobiographical Association members the first time, and why?

8. What does Fleur find unusual about Dottie when she visits Fleur after returning from Ireland?

9. 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?

10. How does Dottie anger Fleur when discussing Warrender Chase in Chapter 3?

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