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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part 2.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Where does Cressida ask Carrie if she has visited lately?
(a) Paris.
(b) Milan.
(c) Columbus.
(d) San Francisco.

2. What is the name of Cressida's third husband?
(a) Blane Butcher.
(b) Persius Plyt.
(c) Blasius Bouchalka.
(d) Mandrake Issner.

3. About what does Cressida turn suddenly melancholy?
(a) Why her sisters never are supportive.
(b) Her fiance's refusal to come on the ocean voyage.
(c) Why there are few events in her life that she would choose to revisit.
(d) Cressida's upcoming birthday.

4. What terms do Cressida's sisters use to characterize her break from McChord?
(a) Her separation.
(b) Her mistake.
(c) Her impetuousness.
(d) Her loss.

5. Upon what does Poppas' retirement hinge?
(a) If his ailment worsens.
(b) When Cressida decides she no longer needs his services.
(c) If his wife will go with him.
(d) If he does well in the stock market.

Short Answer Questions

1. Whom does Carrie think has a sobering effect on Cressida?

2. How do Cressida's sisters and son justify their greed?

3. Who is the famous singer boarding a cruise ship in New York City?

4. Why does the narrator believe it is wise for the famous person to pose for the photographers?

5. Besides her accompanist, what else is Poppas to Cressida?

(see the answer key)

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