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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part 4.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Who decides to end Cressida's third marriage?
(a) Her third husband.
(b) Cressida.
(c) It was a mutual decision between Cressida and her third husband.
(d) Her son Horace blackmails Cressida to do so since he hated the third husband.

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

4. Who does Cressida hope Carrie meets?
(a) Cressida's investment advisor.
(b) Jerome.
(c) The ship's surgeon who is single and handsome.
(d) The star opposite Cressida at a performance in London.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Who of the "inner circle" is not accompanying Cressida?

2. A year later, over what were Georgie and Julie still wrangling?

3. How could Cressida's approach to her career be described?

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

5. Of what does Poppas periodically remind the Garnet sisters?

(see the answer key)

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