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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.
Short Answer Questions
1. How does Lady Edwina react upon receiving the tragic news of the suicide of one of the Association's members?
2. Who interrupts the argument between Fleur and Sir Quentin?
3. To what is the suicide attributed?
4. What does Lady Edwina do before Fleur leaves Sir Quentin's flat?
5. When she returns to Sir Quentin's flat after the suicide, Beryl Tims tells Fleur that Sir Quentin had to go out. What does Fleur do?
Short Essay Questions
1. Chapter 11 is filled with a great deal of information, often through Fleur's narrations from the present as she remembers the events of her past. Describe two concepts on which she sheds light at this point in the book.
2. What realization does Fleur come to regarding her novel, Warrender Chase, when Sir Quentin calls her into his office in Chapter 7?
3. In Chapter 9, yet another character points out a correlation between Warrender Chase and reality. Who is it, and what is pointed out?
4. Fleur's job at the Association has changed by Chapter 7. What are her duties now?
5. Before Fleur leaves the flat, Lady Edwina gives her something in secret. When she reads it later, what does she find?
6. Why doesn't Fleur tell Edwina that she believes Sir Quentin is behind the theft of her manuscript?
7. Before Fleur works out a plan to retrieve her manuscript, fate intervenes and presents her with a way to do so. What happens?
8. What does Fleur first think might be the problem with her novel when the publisher requests to meet with her in person?
9. After Fleur retrieves her manuscript and goes home, she is visited by Dottie. What happens during this visit?
10. Fleur mentions a parallel to another novel, not of her writing, at this point. What novel and what parallel?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Muriel Spark intentionally leaves character motivation out of Loitering with Intent. Her main character, Fleur Talbot, discusses not disclosing Warrender Chase's motivation for his evil behavior, merely the effects of his evil actions.
Discuss the concept of motivation and why you think Spark doesn't focus on the motivation of her characters' actions. Do you think this affects the reader's impressions of the novel?
Essay Topic 2
Writers can describe the values of a culture or a society through characters who succeed in the culture, or conversely, are alienated from society. How do this novel's characters, through their success or alienation, reveal the 1949 London society's assumptions or moral values?
Essay Topic 3
What would you have done if you'd found yourself in Fleur's position at the Autobiographical Association? Would you have stayed on? Why or why not? Discuss the ethical implications of your decision.
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