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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who is Miletus Poppas?
(a) Cressida's long-time accompanist.
(b) Horace's boyfriend.
(c) Cressida's personal chef.
(d) Miss Julia's current beau.

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

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

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

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

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

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

8. To where does Poppas want to eventually retire?
(a) To southern Africa.
(b) To the Southwest United States.
(c) To a remote city in the middle of Asia.
(d) To the Kalimari dessert.

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

10. Why is Carrie able to spend a lot of time with Cressida over the next several days?
(a) Carrie actually only sees Cressida once in passing during the rest of the voyage.
(b) Cressida's travel entourage is otherwise engaged.
(c) Cressida insists that everyone but Carrie stays away.
(d) Carrie is alone and has no other obligations.

11. When Cressida makes the statement in Part II that she "very nearly escaped her destiny," of what might this be an example?
(a) Simile.
(b) Alliteration.
(c) Foreshadowing.
(d) Prophesy.

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

13. What is Cressida's response to what the deck steward hands her?
(a) She is flustered.
(b) She asks if the Kentucky Derby is over.
(c) She gulps it down.
(d) She nods acceptance.

14. How do Cressida's sisters and son justify their greed?
(a) That she has more than she could ever want.
(b) If they don't get her money, Poppas will.
(c) That they earn it by their relationship to her.
(d) That they are her ever-loyal supporters.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What do Cressida and Poppas have for each other?

2. Why does Cressida's third marriage fail?

3. Who does Cressida hope Carrie meets?

4. What else turns Cressida melancholy?

5. Over whom does Cressida choose Poppas?

(see the answer keys)

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