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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How does Carrie view the relationship between Cressida and Poppas?
(a) Strictly as employer- employee.
(b) Poppas as a father figure.
(c) Part teacher, part lover.
(d) That of pupil and teacher.

2. What does Carrie realize about the group with whom Cressida travels?
(a) That they are like sharks circling.
(b) How much they adore Cressida.
(c) That there is only one woman among them.
(d) How intricately attached each of them is to Cressida.

3. How does Cressida explain her upcoming marriage to Carrie?
(a) As an impulsive decision of just a few months of knowing each other.
(b) As the need for Cressida to present a "normal" public face.
(c) As something that is grounded in years of building mutual trust.
(d) As the desire for a man to take care of her.

4. Who of Cressida's husbands was a music teacher and choir director?
(a) Her first husband.
(b) Her second husband.
(c) Her third husband.
(d) None of her husbands.

5. What does Jerome supposedly convey to Cressida?
(a) The sense that he is eager to greet her in London.
(b) A secret code to give to some men in London.
(c) His engagement of a private dining room on the ship.
(d) Information he had forgotten to tell her before she departed.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why is Cressida not surprised to encounter Carrie?

2. What type of child was Cressida?

3. Why do Carrie and Cressida walk away together?

4. What is Cressida's response to what the deck steward hands her?

5. What in Cressida's life had scandalous potential?

(see the answer key)

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