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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What about Jerome Brown does Cressida feel fortunate?
(a) That he is at least extraordinarily good looking.
(b) That he gets along well with Poppas.
(c) That he is not using her money in his investment schemes.
(d) That he loves her.

2. How does Carrie view the relationship between Cressida and Poppas?
(a) Part teacher, part lover.
(b) Strictly as employer- employee.
(c) Poppas as a father figure.
(d) That of pupil and teacher.

3. Where does the bulk of Cressida's fortune lie?
(a) In governement t-bills.
(b) In real estate.
(c) In worthless stocks.
(d) In municipal bonds.

4. On the next visit to the restaurant where Carrie and Cressida first saw Bouchalka, what do they learn?
(a) He was fired and no longer working at the restaurant.
(b) He set sail back to Austria.
(c) His name wasn't really Bouchalka.
(d) He had died from the illness which made him rush off from Cressida's home.

5. Of what does Cressida disapprove about her son?
(a) That he isn't musically inclined.
(b) His gambling losses.
(c) That he looks so much like a gangster in the way he dresses.
(d) His new fiance.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. To what party is Cressida's father devoted?

3. Why does Cressida take Bouchalka aside to converse with him?

4. Why does the narrator believe it is wise for the famous person to pose for the photographers?

5. The fact that Cressida's third marriage is mentioned in passing, but not elaborated upon may be an example of what?

(see the answer key)

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