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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why does Carrie think Bouchalka is less driven now in his work?
(a) He has decided he hates music.
(b) He is going to die on her just like her first husband did.
(c) He is having an affair.
(d) He has it so easy.

2. What is Jerome Brown's occupation?
(a) Financier.
(b) Lawyer.
(c) Doctor.
(d) Sea captain.

3. As Bouchalka spends more time with Cressida, who is seen less often with her?
(a) Poppas.
(b) The man she had been dating when she first met Bouchalka.
(c) Carrie.
(d) Harold.

4. To whom does Carrie compare Jerome Brown?
(a) Horace.
(b) Buchanan Garnet, Cressida's oldest brother.
(c) Bouchalka.
(d) Poppas.

5. How does the title of this story figure in in this part of the reading of the letters?
(a) That Cressida's fortune resides mainly in some diamond mines in South Africa.
(b) Carrie thinks that the family merely saw Cressida as a diamond mine to be exploited.
(c) That Cressida is a diamond among coal.
(d) That Cressida is cherished as precious as a diamond by her family.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why does Cressida think the violin player is either very poor or in some type of trouble?

2. Who contests the bequest to Poppas?

3. Why do Carrie and Cressida send the carriage home?

4. Who out of all those mentioned in the will actually contributed to Cressida's fortune?

5. To what does Bouchalka compare the cakes served at Cressida's home?

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