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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What does Cressida do when she spies Carrie?
(a) Turns away and pretends not to see her.
(b) Waves at her from where she is lying on a deck lounger.
(c) Rises and greets her warmly.
(d) Yells at her angrily about a suitcase mix-up.

3. Who among Cressida's inner circle understands the source of her fortune?
(a) Lilly.
(b) Horace.
(c) Julia.
(d) Poppas.

4. What is a word Cassie uses to describe Cressida's approach to her work?
(a) Hesitance.
(b) Obnoxiousness.
(c) Languor.
(d) Certainty.

5. What do Cressida and Poppas have for each other?
(a) A love/hate tension.
(b) Mutual respect.
(c) Admiration.
(d) The ability to practically read each other's minds.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Cressida explain her sister's presence?

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

3. What does the deck steward hand Cressida?

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

5. How does Cressida explain her melancholy to Carrie?

(see the answer key)

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