View a FREE sample

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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Fleur has been given pages from Sir Quentin's private diary. What does she find written there?
(a) Details of his relationship with Mrs. Tims.
(b) Rantings about how much he loathes his mother.
(c) Documentation of his plan to steal her manuscript, keep it from being published and direct quotes from her book.
(d) Evidence of his lust for Fleur.

2. What does Fleur realize when she gets home after learning from her publisher that he will not publish her novel?
(a) That the publisher has the only typescript of Warrender Chase.
(b) That if she renames the novel, she can simply take it to a new publisher.
(c) That Sir Quentin is right, and that she must admit her guilt.
(d) That perhaps she should use a pseudonym before trying to get anything else published.

3. What does Fleur see in Sir Quentin's drawer?
(a) A photo of him with Beryl Tims.
(b) A pearl-handled knife.
(c) Her original manuscript of Warrender Chase.
(d) A bundle of proofs approximately the size of a novel.

4. Where does Fleur find her manuscript after arriving at Dottie's flat?
(a) Under her four-poster bed.
(b) In the bottom of her black knitting bag.
(c) In the bottom of her clothes cupboard.
(d) Arranged under the tea tray in the butler's pantry.

5. In the novel's present day, Fleur lives in Paris. Who has just been there to visit her?
(a) Dottie, her current husband and the ugliest children Fleur has ever seen.
(b) Solly Mendelsohn, on holiday from Hampstead Heath.
(c) Egbert Delaney, recently released from rehabilitation after exposing himself in the park.
(d) Maisie Young, who runs a successful vegetarian restaurant.

Short Answer Questions

1. What news does Fleur receive from Lady Edwina's nurse that evening, after she's learned that her novel won't be published?

2. Lady Edwina lived until she was 98 years old. She'd outlived her son and inherited his wealth; who inherited her fortune when she died?

3. Where does Fleur go after the reviews for Warrender Chase come out?

4. When Fleur runs into Mrs. Wilks in Chapter 7, she notices Mrs. Wilks has lost a lot of weight and no longer seemed happy. What does she ask Fleur to do?

5. How does Lady Edwina react upon receiving the tragic news of the suicide of one of the Association's members?

Short Essay Questions

1. What is the traumatic news Fleur receives near the end of Chapter 8?

2. Before Fleur works out a plan to retrieve her manuscript, fate intervenes and presents her with a way to do so. What happens?

3. What does Fleur first think might be the problem with her novel when the publisher requests to meet with her in person?

4. How does Fleur happen upon the title of the book she is now narrating?

5. Fleur's job at the Association has changed by Chapter 7. What are her duties now?

6. After Fleur retrieves her manuscript and goes home, she is visited by Dottie. What happens during this visit?

7. Fleur consults her friend, Solly Mendelsohn, when she realizes that the publisher now has the only copy of her manuscript. Why?

8. How does Sir Quentin lure Fleur to his office after she retypes her manuscript and gives the copies to Solly?

9. When her novel is ultimately published, how does Fleur initially react?

10. Even though Fleur and Dottie have quite a tumultuous relationship, after Sir Quentin's death, she keeps Fleur well-informed about the other members of the Autobiographical Association. Describe what happens to any two members.

(see the answer keys)

This section contains 1,043 words (approx. 4 pages at 300 words per page) View a FREE sample