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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why is Cressida's stateroom lower in the ship than usual?
(a) She was accidentally assigned there and they have no better one to offer.
(b) She was trying to save money.
(c) She thought it'd be warmer in the chilly weather.
(d) She decides to get to know a different sort of people.

2. What is the major focus of Part 3?
(a) The interaction of Cressida and her two sisters when they are young.
(b) The friendship of Carrie and Cressida.
(c) The relationship between Cressida and Charley.
(d) How Cressida meets, marries and divorces Blasius Bouchalka.

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

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

5. What does Cressida confide to Carrie concerning Cressida's fortune?
(a) As much as Cressida has tried to use her fortune to make others happy, it only makes her life more difficult.
(b) That Jerome has tripled her fortune.
(c) That the end of it is almost there.
(d) That Cressida does not tell Jerome about the bulk of her fortune, which is in a Swiss bank account.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who does not sail back to the States with Cressida, having gone on ahead a week earlier?

2. As Carrie is observing the men in Cressida's car while awaiting word of survivors, what does she wonder?

3. Where are Carrie and Cressida at the opening of Part 3?

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

5. What prompts Carrie to write this story?

(see the answer keys)

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