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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How does Bouchalka explain Cressida's discovery?
(a) That he didn't want to contact her and have her worry about his health.
(b) That he could not longer be a kept man.
(c) That he wanted to surprise her with the opera when she returned.
(d) He was quite drunk, that the affair was meaningless, and that nothing like that had ever happened before.

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

3. Why does Bouchalka rush off from Cressida's party?
(a) He promised to pick up his younger sister and escort her home.
(b) He wants to quickly write down a composition that is in his head.
(c) He feels ill.
(d) He realizes he is late for work.

4. How long does it seem to Carrie that Bouchalka has been at Cressida's house when Carrie arrives on her next visit?
(a) Bouchalka has not yet arrived.
(b) For quite some time.
(c) For only a minute or so ahead of Carrie.
(d) Bouchalka left the day before on an emergency to Germany.

5. As Bouchalka spends more time with Cressida, who is seen less often with her?
(a) Harold.
(b) Carrie.
(c) Poppas.
(d) The man she had been dating when she first met Bouchalka.

6. About whom is the narrating talking at the beginning of Part 4?
(a) Bouchalka.
(b) Jerome Brown.
(c) Poppas.
(d) Carrie.

7. Why does Cressida go to England?
(a) To get her money away from Jerome's inept grasp.
(b) To see London once more before killing herself.
(c) To have a winter free of Jerome's attentions.
(d) To make money on a tour to pull herself out of the precarious financial position in which she finds herself.

8. In what type of restaurant does Cressida prefer to dine?
(a) Where she will be recognized and treated like a prima donna.
(b) A restaurant where celebrities gather.
(c) One in which fewer people will recognize her.
(d) One that is small and expensive.

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

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

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) How Cressida meets, marries and divorces Blasius Bouchalka.
(d) The relationship between Cressida and Charley.

12. What is Brown's main failing?
(a) Poor investments on Wall Street.
(b) Running around on Cressida.
(c) Being antisocial.
(d) Having many greedy relatives.

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. How is Poppas seated in Cressida's car awaiting word of survivors?

3. Who does not sail back to the States with Cressida, having gone on ahead a week earlier?

4. How does Carrie describe the violin player?

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

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