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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

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

4. What drives a wedge between the sisters and Poppas?
(a) Poppas's not allowing both sisters to come to New York.
(b) Their distrust.
(c) Cressida favoring Poppas over the sisters.
(d) Poppas's cruelty to the sisters.

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

6. Why is Cressida not surprised to encounter Carrie?
(a) Because Cressida's personal secretary knew Carrie booked a room.
(b) Because Cressida had sent Carried a ticket.
(c) Because Carrie loves to travel on ships.
(d) Because she always manages to turn up at critical periods in her life.

7. Whom do Cressida's sisters blame for the failure of Cressida's second marriage?
(a) Carrie.
(b) Cressida.
(c) Poppas.
(d) Horace.

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

9. How does Carrie view the relationship between Cressida and Poppas?
(a) That of pupil and teacher.
(b) Part teacher, part lover.
(c) Poppas as a father figure.
(d) Strictly as employer- employee.

10. How does Cressida's trust in and loyalty to Poppas reflect some other aspect in her life?
(a) It reflects the same relationship between Cressida and her son.
(b) It may reflect the extent to which she lacks trust and loyalty in other parts of her life.
(c) It reflects the same relationship between Cressida and her sisters.
(d) It reflects the same relationship between Cressida and her husbands.

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

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

13. As Cressida walks toward her stateroom, who does she encounter?
(a) Horace and Poppas.
(b) Horace, Miss Julia, and Poppas.
(c) Jerome and the Captain.
(d) The deck steward with another drink.

14. From where is Cressida's family originally?
(a) North Carolina.
(b) California.
(c) Northern Ireland.
(d) New York.

15. At what do Cressida's sisters marvel?
(a) At Cressida being able to go through her life "untouched by the breath of scandal."
(b) At the fact that Cressida raised Horace as a single woman.
(c) At Cressida's exceeding generosity.
(d) At Cressida's success in the entertainment world.

Short Answer Questions

1. About what does Cressida turn suddenly melancholy?

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

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

4. Who knows Cressida more than any other person?

5. Of what does Cressida disapprove about her son?

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