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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. What does the deck steward hand Cressida?
(a) A mint julep.
(b) An invitation to the captain's table for dinner.
(c) A gin and tonic.
(d) An envelope containing a wireless message.

2. To where does Poppas want to eventually retire?
(a) To the Kalimari dessert.
(b) To a remote city in the middle of Asia.
(c) To the Southwest United States.
(d) To southern Africa.

3. How does Cressida's trust in and loyalty to Poppas reflect some other aspect in her life?
(a) It reflects the same relationship between Cressida and her sisters.
(b) It may reflect the extent to which she lacks trust and loyalty in other parts of her life.
(c) It reflects the same relationship between Cressida and her husbands.
(d) It reflects the same relationship between Cressida and her son.

4. What does Jerome supposedly convey to Cressida?
(a) His engagement of a private dining room on the ship.
(b) The sense that he is eager to greet her in London.
(c) Information he had forgotten to tell her before she departed.
(d) A secret code to give to some men in London.

5. Who is jealous of Cressida's success?
(a) Her ex-husbands.
(b) Her two sisters.
(c) Her son.
(d) Her sister-in-law.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Who is Miletus Poppas?

3. What does Cressida think might have been a better thing than to have married after the death of her first husband?

4. Cressida's relationship with Poppas had potential for _______________.

5. Who decides to end Cressida's third marriage?

Short Essay Questions

1. When Carrie is watching the four men who are at the reading of the survivor's names from the Titanic, she muses to herself wondering if Cressida would actually return to those men sitting there is she could. Do you think Cressida would return to these men if she could?

2. Who is not traveling with Cressida and what is one possible explanation for that?

3. What could be a possible explanation for the reactions to the engagement by Cressida's family?

4. Why does Cressida wait to travel alone on the Titanic instead of leaving London a week earlier with Horace and Poppas?

5. Poppas spends his entire adult life creating one star. What do you think he gains from this dedication?

6. How does the last paragraphs about the photograph Poppas sends reflect an important theme of this story?

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

8. What are some facts which Cressida learns about Bouchalka on her Sunday gathering? Is there anything in what Cressida relates to Carrie about Bouchalka that seems to foreshadow the eventual failure of his marriage to Cressida?

9. To whom does Cressida attribute her success and why is this partially true and partially not the full story?

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

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