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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why does Cressida want Carrie to come to Cressida's house on Sunday?
(a) To meet Cressida's new manager.
(b) To have Sunday dinner when the priest comes over.
(c) To meet Bouchalka who will be coming there on Sunday.
(d) So Carrie can help Cressida pick out new colors for the guest room.

2. What follows quickly after Cressida's discovery?
(a) A divorce.
(b) She convinces him to return home.
(c) Bouchalka dies.
(d) She performs the opera at the Met.

3. To where does Poppas move?
(a) His city in Asia.
(b) Rangoon.
(c) Mexico.
(d) London.

4. What does Cressida say she would have done about marrying her first husband had she known he would die so soon after?
(a) Should would have not even become acquainted with him.
(b) She would have just been lovers with him.
(c) She would have married him anyway.
(d) She does not know how she would feel.

5. Why do Carrie and Henry decide to support the person is question 169?
(a) They believe it is what Cressida would have wanted.
(b) They do not support anyone over anyone else in matters of the estate.
(c) They say it is in the will and therefore it is sacrosanct.
(d) They like that person (in question 169) better than anyone else.

6. A year later, over what were Georgie and Julie still wrangling?
(a) Nothing; they settled long before a year is up.
(b) Cressida's pearls and opals.
(c) Cressida's make-up.
(d) Cressida's wig collection.

7. Why does Cressida take Bouchalka aside to converse with him?
(a) Because he asks to speak to her privately.
(b) Because she wishes to flirt with him.
(c) So that she can make the man she is currently jealous.
(d) Because he is clearly ill at ease among her other guests.

8. How do the two women evaluate the duet between the pianist and violin player?
(a) As too bright and fast for dinnertime music.
(b) As mediocre.
(c) As off key slightly.
(d) As brilliant.

9. What does Poppas think of what Bouchalka sends Cressida?
(a) He is jealous of another man sending her flowers.
(b) He hopes Cressida will invite him to use one of the tickets.
(c) He thinks she should not go to Germany when there is unrest there.
(d) He thinks it's quite good.

10. What does Carrie find at Cressida's home the next time she is there?
(a) Cressida's new boyfriend.
(b) A new piano.
(c) An unfamiliar musical composition.
(d) Cressida's new puppy dog.

11. On the next visit to the restaurant where Carrie and Cressida first saw Bouchalka, what do they learn?
(a) He set sail back to Austria.
(b) He had died from the illness which made him rush off from Cressida's home.
(c) His name wasn't really Bouchalka.
(d) He was fired and no longer working at the restaurant.

12. To whom does Cressida write a note to express her pleasure at the performance in the restaurant?
(a) No one.
(b) The restaurant owner.
(c) The orchestra's director.
(d) The violin player.

13. What does Gilbert do in order to uphold Cressida's will?
(a) Has Cressida's family barred from the proceedings.
(b) Hires a good lawyer.
(c) Lies to Cressida's family about the amount of her estate.
(d) Files a brief with the courts.

14. How is Poppas seated in Cressida's car awaiting word of survivors?
(a) Ramrod straight as if he is prepared to take the news like a man.
(b) Slumped with shoulders drooping and chewing on his glove.
(c) Agitated, moving and fidgeting.
(d) Poppas is not in the car.

15. How does Cressida realize she is recognized in the restaurant?
(a) Given the flourish with which the music begins, Cressida realizes that they have been recognized.
(b) The orchestra conductor asks Cressida to sing.
(c) The maitre'd brings a bottle of wine to the table from another customer.
(d) Several people nod and wave at Cressida.

Short Answer Questions

1. How do Bouchalka and Cressida appear after their honeymoon?

2. In what type of restaurant does Cressida prefer to dine?

3. In what ways does Cressida help Bouchalka?

4. Why is Cressida's stateroom lower in the ship than usual?

5. What prompts Carrie to write this story?

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