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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Cressida confide to Carrie concerning Cressida's fortune?
(a) That Cressida does not tell Jerome about the bulk of her fortune, which is in a Swiss bank account.
(b) That Jerome has tripled her fortune.
(c) As much as Cressida has tried to use her fortune to make others happy, it only makes her life more difficult.
(d) That the end of it is almost there.

2. Why do Carrie and Henry decide to support the person is question 169?
(a) They say it is in the will and therefore it is sacrosanct.
(b) They believe it is what Cressida would have wanted.
(c) They like that person (in question 169) better than anyone else.
(d) They do not support anyone over anyone else in matters of the estate.

3. Why does Cressida want Carrie to come to Cressida's house on Sunday?
(a) So Carrie can help Cressida pick out new colors for the guest room.
(b) To have Sunday dinner when the priest comes over.
(c) To meet Cressida's new manager.
(d) To meet Bouchalka who will be coming there on Sunday.

4. To whom does Carrie compare Jerome Brown?
(a) Buchanan Garnet, Cressida's oldest brother.
(b) Bouchalka.
(c) Poppas.
(d) Horace.

5. How does Cressida die?
(a) A stray bullet from an assassin trying to hit the German chancellor.
(b) Suicide.
(c) On the Titanic.
(d) Of old age.

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

7. Who of the men in Cressida's car awaiting word of survivors actually cries?
(a) Horace.
(b) Buchanan Garnet.
(c) Poppas.
(d) The chauffeur.

8. What is Jerome Brown's occupation?
(a) Lawyer.
(b) Financier.
(c) Sea captain.
(d) Doctor.

9. What else does Cressida believe about the violin player?
(a) Then he should be married so a wife can help him.
(b) That he is earnest in his desire to be a musician.
(c) That he looks poor to be playing a Stradivarius violin.
(d) That he looks like he would be an abusive husband.

10. To what does Bouchalka compare the cakes served at Cressida's home?
(a) Food served at Jewish seder.
(b) The cake his mother loved.
(c) Communion wafers.
(d) Food from his native country.

11. What is the major focus of Part 3?
(a) The interaction of Cressida and her two sisters when they are young.
(b) The friendship of Carrie and Cressida.
(c) The relationship between Cressida and Charley.
(d) How Cressida meets, marries and divorces Blasius Bouchalka.

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

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

14. Why does Cressida wait for a different ocean liner from that which Horace and Poppas take?
(a) She missed the port call for Horace's ship because of a visit to the Queen.
(b) She had a bad feeling about the one they took.
(c) She felt it offers better publicity.
(d) She was not quite ready to leave London.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Why is the violin player rummaging through a pile of papers?

2. What is Brown's main failing?

3. In what type of restaurant does Cressida prefer to dine?

4. How do Bouchalka and Cressida appear after their honeymoon?

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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