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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part 3.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who does Cressida hope Carrie meets?
(a) Jerome.
(b) The ship's surgeon who is single and handsome.
(c) The star opposite Cressida at a performance in London.
(d) Cressida's investment advisor.

2. On the next visit to the restaurant where Carrie and Cressida first saw Bouchalka, what do they learn?
(a) He had died from the illness which made him rush off from Cressida's home.
(b) He was fired and no longer working at the restaurant.
(c) He set sail back to Austria.
(d) His name wasn't really Bouchalka.

3. What most impresses Cressida's suitors about her?
(a) Her generosity.
(b) Her beauty.
(c) Her talent.
(d) Her competence.

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

5. What does Cressida think might have been a better thing than to have married after the death of her first husband?
(a) To have just had lovers.
(b) To have lived with a female companion.
(c) To have killed herself after buying a large insurance policy for Horace.
(d) To have gone into a convent.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What type of child was Cressida?

3. How long does it seem to Carrie that Bouchalka has been at Cressida's house when Carrie arrives on her next visit?

4. How do Carrie and Cressida first meet?

5. Who of the "inner circle" is not accompanying Cressida?

(see the answer key)

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