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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What did Cressida once worry about when she was broke?
(a) Whether she'd have enough food for herself and Horace.
(b) Having enough money to bury her first husband.
(c) If she would be able to afford a gown to apply for a part on Broadway.
(d) If she and her son would be put out on the streets.

3. 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 gone into a convent.
(c) To have lived with a female companion.
(d) To have killed herself after buying a large insurance policy for Horace.

4. Who is Jerome Brown?
(a) Cressida's other son.
(b) Cressida's sixth husband.
(c) Cressida's current fiance.
(d) Cressida's brother-in-law.

5. What disease did Cressida's first husband contract?
(a) Consumption.
(b) Malaria.
(c) Tuberculosis.
(d) Syphilis.

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

7. 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.

8. Who is jealous of Cressida's success?
(a) Her two sisters.
(b) Her son.
(c) Her ex-husbands.
(d) Her sister-in-law.

9. Cressida's relationship with Poppas had potential for _______________.
(a) greatness.
(b) joy.
(c) scandal.
(d) intrigue.

10. How does Cressida explain her melancholy to Carrie?
(a) The sea air always briefly makes her melancholy.
(b) The prospect of her usualy seasickness.
(c) Melancholy is a genetic trait in her family tree.
(d) The cloudy, grey skies makes her melancholy.

11. What is the name of Cressida's third husband?
(a) Persius Plyt.
(b) Blasius Bouchalka.
(c) Mandrake Issner.
(d) Blane Butcher.

12. Who does Carrie think would remain by her side no matter how rich or poor Cressida is?
(a) Poppas.
(b) Miss Julia.
(c) Mr. Brown.
(d) Horace.

13. Who despise(s) Poppas?
(a) Cressida's sisters.
(b) Horace's father.
(c) The general public.
(d) Cressida's future husband.

14. Over whom does Cressida choose Poppas?
(a) Her son.
(b) Her sisters.
(c) Her second husband.
(d) Her father-in-law.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. With what question does Horace interrupt the two women's conversation?

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

3. From where is Cressida's family originally?

4. What does Jerome supposedly convey to Cressida?

5. How might one characterize Poppas?

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