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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How do Cressida's sisters and son justify their greed?
(a) That they earn it by their relationship to her.
(b) If they don't get her money, Poppas will.
(c) That she has more than she could ever want.
(d) That they are her ever-loyal supporters.

2. What statement is true concerning Poppas and Cressida?
(a) That they only tolerate each other for the money they make together.
(b) That they will eventually marry.
(c) That they are unbeknown to others actually half siblings.
(d) That neither could have become successful without the other.

3. What did Cressida once worry about when she was broke?
(a) If she and her son would be put out on the streets.
(b) Whether she'd have enough food for herself and Horace.
(c) If she would be able to afford a gown to apply for a part on Broadway.
(d) Having enough money to bury her first husband.

4. Whom does Carrie think has a sobering effect on Cressida?
(a) Miss Lilly.
(b) Horace.
(c) Miss Julia.
(d) Poppas.

5. What is Carrie's private thought about Horace's support of Cressida?
(a) Carrie wishes Horace were support Carrie's decision to come on the voyage.
(b) It is all show.
(c) Horace's support can usually be easily bought.
(d) Horace is the finest son a woman could hope to have.

Short Answer Questions

1. Besides Cressida's wealth, what else do Cressida's sisters covet?

2. Who is jealous of Cressida's success?

3. Why does the narrator believe it is wise for the famous person to pose for the photographers?

4. Who is Jerome Brown?

5. What is the name of Cressida's other sister who is not on the ship?

Short Essay Questions

1. Discuss the interaction between Horace and Cressida near the end of Part one.

2. Give a brief synopsis of what the reader knows about Cressida's marriages by the end of part one.

3. Does the narrator seem to indicate that Cressida and Poppas understand what the two have given each other?

4. How does Carrie learn of Cressida's upcoming performances in London?

5. Of what does nights like the one Cressida and Carrie are enjoying at Central Park remind Cressida?

6. Describe Cressida's traveling companions.

7. How does Poppas's relationship influence Cressida's relationship with her second husband?

8. Describe the scene when Cressida discovers Bouchalka in a compromising situation. Do you think she was wise to divorce him?

9. What is one possible explanation of the perfunctory greeting from Horace and Miss Julia to Carrie?

10. What is thought about the musical score which Bouchalka has sent to Cressida?

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