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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

8. On the next visit to the restaurant where Carrie and Cressida first saw Bouchalka, what do they learn?
(a) He was fired and no longer working at the restaurant.
(b) He set sail back to Austria.
(c) His name wasn't really Bouchalka.
(d) He had died from the illness which made him rush off from Cressida's home.

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

10. What does Bouchalka do when he is twenty-one?
(a) Marries a German peasant girl.
(b) Plays with the Paris Metro Opera.
(c) Takes vows as a monk.
(d) Joins a gypsy band and plays throughout Austria.

11. What does Blasius Bouchalka send Cressida?
(a) A dozen roses.
(b) An invitation to Germany.
(c) An original score.
(d) Tickets to his Carnegie Hall debut.

12. 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.

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

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

15. A year later, over what were Georgie and Julie still wrangling?
(a) Cressida's pearls and opals.
(b) Cressida's make-up.
(c) Cressida's wig collection.
(d) Nothing; they settled long before a year is up.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why does Cressida go to England?

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

3. Why does Bouchalka rush off from Cressida's party?

4. What is Henry Gilbert's occupation?

5. What else does Cressida believe about the violin player?

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