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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What surprises Carrie about the family's emotions surrounding the letters?
(a) That Cressida is so kind and loving in the letters.
(b) That they are heartbroken when reading the letters to Carrie.
(c) That none of them has a sense of shame about the letters.
(d) That they believe the letters prove their entitlement to money from the estate.

2. How does the title of this story figure in in this part of the reading of the letters?
(a) That Cressida is a diamond among coal.
(b) Carrie thinks that the family merely saw Cressida as a diamond mine to be exploited.
(c) That Cressida's fortune resides mainly in some diamond mines in South Africa.
(d) That Cressida is cherished as precious as a diamond by her family.

3. When Cressida makes a surprise visit home during her tour, what does she find?
(a) Bouchalka has finished a marvelous opera.
(b) Bouchalka near death with the flu.
(c) Bouchalka having sex with the cook.
(d) Bouchalka has moved out of the home.

4. As Carrie is observing the men in Cressida's car while awaiting word of survivors, what does she wonder?
(a) If Cressida would return to these men if she could.
(b) If Cressida maybe survives, but walks away from them all.
(c) If any of them would have sacrificed his life for Cressida's life.
(d) If they are already counting their inheritance.

5. What follows quickly after Cressida's discovery?
(a) She convinces him to return home.
(b) Bouchalka dies.
(c) She performs the opera at the Met.
(d) A divorce.

6. To whom were Cressida's jewels, furs and gowns to go?
(a) To Horace's wife.
(b) To Georgie and Julia.
(c) To Carrie.
(d) To charity.

7. Who is named executors of Cressida's will?
(a) Poppas.
(b) Henry Gilbert and Carrie.
(c) Horace.
(d) Jerome Brown.

8. Who out of all those mentioned in the will actually contributed to Cressida's fortune?
(a) No one.
(b) Jerome.
(c) Poppas.
(d) Horace.

9. Who does not sail back to the States with Cressida, having gone on ahead a week earlier?
(a) Poppas and Horace.
(b) Julia and Lilly.
(c) Jerome.
(d) Carrie.

10. How does Bouchalka justify his actions?
(a) By saying his father did the same thing he did.
(b) By saying he would have forgiven a similar transgression by Cressida.
(c) By saying he had Cressida's good at heart.
(d) By suggesting that his music was good even if she had influence in getting it performed.

11. Did Bouchalka recognize Cressida in the restaurant when he was playing the violin?
(a) Yes, but he wasn't absolutely certain as he had only seen her picture in the paper.
(b) Yes, he had heard her sing several times before.
(c) No, he didn't really notice her that evening.
(d) No, he thought she was someone famous but wasn't sure.

12. What disappoints Cressida's sisters?
(a) That the jewels went to charity.
(b) That the jewels went to Carrie.
(c) That the fur pieces were scanty.
(d) That there wasn't more diamonds.

13. What does Cressida say she would have done about marrying her first husband had she known he would die so soon after?
(a) She would have just been lovers with him.
(b) She does not know how she would feel.
(c) Should would have not even become acquainted with him.
(d) She would have married him anyway.

14. In what ways does Cressida help Bouchalka?
(a) By helping his younger sister go to a school for aspiring musicians.
(b) By helping him stay in the United States legally.
(c) In his career as a musician.
(d) By finding him a job as a janitor at the Metropolitan Opera so he can hear music while he works.

15. How much does Cressida's marketable property yield?
(a) 150 thousand dollars.
(b) 50 thousand.
(c) Half a million.
(d) 2.5 million.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Carrie describe the violin player?

2. At what turn in the conversation does Bouchalka become agitated and less at ease?

3. What does Carrie find at Cressida's home the next time she is there?

4. Who of the men in Cressida's car awaiting word of survivors actually cries?

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

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