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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part 4.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How does Bouchalka explain Cressida's discovery?
(a) That he didn't want to contact her and have her worry about his health.
(b) That he wanted to surprise her with the opera when she returned.
(c) He was quite drunk, that the affair was meaningless, and that nothing like that had ever happened before.
(d) That he could not longer be a kept man.

2. With what question does Horace interrupt the two women's conversation?
(a) If they would like to go for a walk before retiring for the evening.
(b) If his mother would loan him a thousand dollars as he wants to marry.
(c) If his mother would join him for a nightcap alone.
(d) If the two women knew where Aunt Julia is.

3. Over whom does Cressida choose Poppas?
(a) Her sisters.
(b) Her son.
(c) Her second husband.
(d) Her father-in-law.

4. Whom do Cressida's sisters blame for the failure of Cressida's second marriage?
(a) Carrie.
(b) Poppas.
(c) Cressida.
(d) Horace.

5. Who does not sail back to the States with Cressida, having gone on ahead a week earlier?
(a) Julia and Lilly.
(b) Poppas and Horace.
(c) Jerome.
(d) Carrie.

Short Answer Questions

1. What do Cressida and Poppas have for each other?

2. What do those who contest the bequest show for evidence?

3. A year later, over what were Georgie and Julie still wrangling?

4. What follows quickly after Cressida's discovery?

5. Upon what does Poppas' retirement hinge?

(see the answer key)

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