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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What prompts Carrie to write this story?
(a) Poppas' memories and his recent letter.
(b) Carrie's sorrow over the loss of her best friend.
(c) The desire to make some money selling the story.
(d) Cressida's photograph which is trashed among other stuff her family does not want.

2. Why is the violin player rummaging through a pile of papers?
(a) Because he wants to write Cressida a note.
(b) Because he forgot his music.
(c) Because the conductor asks the violin player for his resignation.
(d) Because he wanted to find a piece of music he wrote.

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

4. What does Bouchalka seem to enjoy?
(a) The idea of Cressida having children.
(b) Having his own grand piano for composing.
(c) All the trappings of Cressida's high profile lifestyle.
(d) Learning to play golf.

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

6. What is in the photograph which Poppas sends Carrie?
(a) Poppas with Cressida on a camel.
(b) Poppas with a woman on each arm.
(c) Poppas on a camel with a description underneath.
(d) Poppas smoking a cigar on a veranda.

7. What does Carrie find at Cressida's home the next time she is there?
(a) An unfamiliar musical composition.
(b) Cressida's new puppy dog.
(c) A new piano.
(d) Cressida's new boyfriend.

8. What do those who contest the bequest show for evidence?
(a) Letters where Cressida states she wishes to provide for them.
(b) They have little evidence to back up their claim.
(c) A letter that shows Poppas is blackmailing Cressida.
(d) Financial statements showing how much Cressida was supported them while she is alive.

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

10. How does Jerome Brown obtain money for his investments?
(a) Government grants.
(b) Cressida.
(c) An inheritance from his family.
(d) Embezzlement.

11. Why would it be natural that Brown gets along well with Poppas?
(a) Brown, as an investor, gets along with everyone.
(b) Brown has twelve brothers and sisters and learned the art of communicating from his infancy onward.
(c) Brown was in the military for many years and had to continually make new friends at new duty stations.
(d) Brown took a Carnegie course about winning friends and influencing people.

12. Why does Poppas move to where he does?
(a) It does not rain and he will not need a hot water bottle.
(b) To become a bum.
(c) To look for a wife now that Cressida is deceased.
(d) To get as far away from Cressida's family as possible.

13. How do the family members act about the rest of Cressida's property?
(a) They calmly divide it evenly among them.
(b) They give it to charity.
(c) The fight over it tooth and nail.
(d) They sue each other in court to gain an advantage.

14. Why is Cressida's stateroom lower in the ship than usual?
(a) She decides to get to know a different sort of people.
(b) She thought it'd be warmer in the chilly weather.
(c) She was accidentally assigned there and they have no better one to offer.
(d) She was trying to save money.

15. With whom do Carrie and Henry stand on one matter of Cressida's will?
(a) Lilly.
(b) Poppas.
(c) Horace.
(d) Jerome.

Short Answer Questions

1. What surprises Carrie about the family's emotions surrounding the letters?

2. What does Bouchalka do when he is twenty-one?

3. What does Poppas think of what Bouchalka sends Cressida?

4. What is Bouchalka's real passion in the world of music?

5. In what ways does Cressida help Bouchalka?

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