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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Several themes are apparent in Part 2; one theme might be what?
(a) Embezzlement.
(b) Greed.
(c) Murder.
(d) Being a fugitive.

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

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

4. Who decides to end Cressida's third marriage?
(a) Cressida.
(b) Her son Horace blackmails Cressida to do so since he hated the third husband.
(c) Her third husband.
(d) It was a mutual decision between Cressida and her third husband.

5. What is Carrie's private thought about Horace's support of Cressida?
(a) It is all show.
(b) Carrie wishes Horace were support Carrie's decision to come on the voyage.
(c) Horace's support can usually be easily bought.
(d) Horace is the finest son a woman could hope to have.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where does Cressida marry her second husband?

2. How do Carrie and Cressida first meet?

3. What is the narrator's relationship to the famous person who is boarding the cruise ship?

4. What does the deck steward hand Cressida?

5. What is probably the most positive emotion that exists between Poppas and Julie?

(see the answer key)

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