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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 Carrie and Cressida first meet?
(a) In their freshman year of high school.
(b) As college roommates.
(c) When their husbands were stationed together in the navy.
(d) In grammar school in their hometown of Columbus, Ohio.

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

3. What does Carrie want to know about Cressida?
(a) If Cressida will be invited to dine at the captain's table that evening.
(b) If Cressida has any performances planned during her stay in London.
(c) If Cressida would be able to get some headache powder.
(d) If Cressida had invited Horace's sister.

4. As Cressida walks toward her stateroom, who does she encounter?
(a) Horace, Miss Julia, and Poppas.
(b) Horace and Poppas.
(c) Jerome and the Captain.
(d) The deck steward with another drink.

5. How does Cressida explain her sister's presence?
(a) Her sister needs to manager Cressida's entourage.
(b) Her sister is good company.
(c) Her sister is dying and this will be her last good time on earth.
(d) Her sister has come to expect to be able to accompany her on these types of trips.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is probably the most positive emotion that exists between Poppas and Julie?

2. With which opera company does Cressida have employment for a while?

3. Who is Jerome Brown?

4. Why is Cressida not surprised to encounter Carrie?

5. What else turns Cressida melancholy?

Short Essay Questions

1. Do you believe that Cressida's family would have been happy just to have Cressida's love and good wishes rather than her money?

2. Why do you think Cressida would have chosen an accompanist and teacher over her marriage?

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

4. How do Cressida's sisters act about what they receive?

5. What might give the reader an indication of the depth of friendship between Carrie and Cressida?

6. How does Carrie evaluate Jerome's effect on Cressida? Carrie uses the word "rapacious" to describe his actions, what does this word mean in the context of Jerome Brown as a financier?

7. Describe Cressida's traveling companions.

8. Describe the relationship between Poppas and Cressida's sisters.

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

10. What does Carrie describe as Cressida's bad luck and what would be Cressida's good luck?

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