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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What does Carrie want to know about Cressida?
(a) If Cressida would be able to get some headache powder.
(b) If Cressida has any performances planned during her stay in London.
(c) If Cressida had invited Horace's sister.
(d) If Cressida will be invited to dine at the captain's table that evening.

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

4. What does Cressida do rather than argue with Horace?
(a) Tells him she has disinherited him.
(b) Goes to her stateroom.
(c) Tells him to go borrow from Poppas.
(d) Gives him another thousand dollars.

5. Whom does Carrie think has a sobering effect on Cressida?
(a) Miss Lilly.
(b) Poppas.
(c) Horace.
(d) Miss Julia.

6. What statement is true concerning Poppas and Cressida?
(a) That they are unbeknown to others actually half siblings.
(b) That neither could have become successful without the other.
(c) That they only tolerate each other for the money they make together.
(d) That they will eventually marry.

7. Who of the "inner circle" is not accompanying Cressida?
(a) Cressida's personal maid who is afraid of ships.
(b) Cressida's best friend.
(c) Cressida's daughter.
(d) Jerome Brown.

8. Where does Cressida ask Carrie if she has visited lately?
(a) San Francisco.
(b) Milan.
(c) Paris.
(d) Columbus.

9. What is the name of Cressida's second husband?
(a) Charley.
(b) Ransome.
(c) Poppas.
(d) Marcus.

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

11. What else turns Cressida melancholy?
(a) The fear that she will never find true love again since her first husband's death.
(b) Why an aura of sadness follows her as she journeys through life.
(c) Thinking about the death of her poodle last month.
(d) The prospect of more singing engagements in London.

12. How does Cressida explain her sister's presence?
(a) Her sister is dying and this will be her last good time on earth.
(b) Her sister is good company.
(c) Her sister needs to manager Cressida's entourage.
(d) Her sister has come to expect to be able to accompany her on these types of trips.

13. Besides Cressida's wealth, what else do Cressida's sisters covet?
(a) Her wonderful son.
(b) The way the public dote on her.
(c) Her handsome husband-to-be.
(d) Her perseverance.

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

15. How do Carrie and Cressida first meet?
(a) As college roommates.
(b) In grammar school in their hometown of Columbus, Ohio.
(c) In their freshman year of high school.
(d) When their husbands were stationed together in the navy.

Short Answer Questions

1. About what does Cressida turn suddenly melancholy?

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

3. At what do Cressida's sisters marvel?

4. Who is the famous singer boarding a cruise ship in New York City?

5. The fact that Cressida's third marriage is mentioned in passing, but not elaborated upon may be an example of what?

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