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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. With what does Cressida become enchanted?
(a) The trumpet playing.
(b) The conductor.
(c) The cello playing.
(d) The violin playing.

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

3. What does Gilbert do in order to uphold Cressida's will?
(a) Lies to Cressida's family about the amount of her estate.
(b) Hires a good lawyer.
(c) Files a brief with the courts.
(d) Has Cressida's family barred from the proceedings.

4. What does Cressida say she is doing?
(a) Keeping Brown out of jail.
(b) Having the time of her life.
(c) Making investments to save investments.
(d) Buying a good marriage.

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

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

7. What does Poppas think of what Bouchalka sends Cressida?
(a) He is jealous of another man sending her flowers.
(b) He thinks she should not go to Germany when there is unrest there.
(c) He thinks it's quite good.
(d) He hopes Cressida will invite him to use one of the tickets.

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

9. Why does Carrie view the walk in the park as a sort of adventure?
(a) Because Carrie seldom gets to be alone with Cressida.
(b) Because even in those days it was unsafe for two women to walk in the park alone.
(c) Because there are several small circus acts occurring in the park at this time.
(d) Given Cressida's level of fame, walking in the park without one of her many attendants turns their outing into a kind of adventure.

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

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

12. How is Poppas seated in Cressida's car awaiting word of survivors?
(a) Slumped with shoulders drooping and chewing on his glove.
(b) Agitated, moving and fidgeting.
(c) Ramrod straight as if he is prepared to take the news like a man.
(d) Poppas is not in the car.

13. 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) That Cressida's fortune resides mainly in some diamond mines in South Africa.
(c) Carrie thinks that the family merely saw Cressida as a diamond mine to be exploited.
(d) That Cressida is cherished as precious as a diamond by her family.

14. How do the two women evaluate the duet between the pianist and violin player?
(a) As brilliant.
(b) As too bright and fast for dinnertime music.
(c) As mediocre.
(d) As off key slightly.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. With whom do Carrie and Henry stand on one matter of Cressida's will?

2. To whom does Carrie write about the horrors of settling Cressida's will?

3. What does Cressida tell others about why Bouchalka does not accompany her on tour in the Spring?

4. What is in the photograph which Poppas sends Carrie?

5. What prompts Carrie to write this story?

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