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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part 3.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How do Carrie and Cressida first meet?
(a) As college roommates.
(b) In their freshman year of high school.
(c) In grammar school in their hometown of Columbus, Ohio.
(d) When their husbands were stationed together in the navy.

2. What is the first occurrence in Cressida's life that Carrie describes as a string of bad luck?
(a) The death of a beloved dog.
(b) The suicide of her father.
(c) The death of her husband.
(d) The death of Cressida's mother when Cressida is six.

3. What is the narrator's name?
(a) Miffy.
(b) Suzanne.
(c) Chessy.
(d) Carrie.

4. What does Cressida think might have been a better thing than to have married after the death of her first husband?
(a) To have gone into a convent.
(b) To have lived with a female companion.
(c) To have just had lovers.
(d) To have killed herself after buying a large insurance policy for Horace.

5. Who of those close to Cressida was supportive of Cressida's recent engagement?
(a) Miss Julia.
(b) Poppas.
(c) Miss Lilly.
(d) Horace.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who of Cressida's husbands was a music teacher and choir director?

2. Of what does Poppas periodically remind the Garnet sisters?

3. Who is Jerome Brown?

4. What type of child was Cressida?

5. Why does Carrie think Bouchalka is less driven now in his work?

(see the answer key)

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