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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In a letter which Carrie discusses, what does Cressida ask of Jerome?
(a) For him to stop making investments and losing her money.
(b) For a divorce.
(c) For him to invest more wisely.
(d) For him to go away with her and live quietly where she can rest.

2. Where are Carrie and Cressida at the opening of Part 3?
(a) In Central Park.
(b) In Romania.
(c) On the ocean liner.
(d) In Columbus, Oh.

3. Why does Carrie view the walk in the park as a sort of adventure?
(a) Because there are several small circus acts occurring in the park at this time.
(b) Because Carrie seldom gets to be alone with Cressida.
(c) Given Cressida's level of fame, walking in the park without one of her many attendants turns their outing into a kind of adventure.
(d) Because even in those days it was unsafe for two women to walk in the park alone.

4. In what does Bouchalka seem to lose interest?
(a) Golf.
(b) Cressida.
(c) Composing.
(d) Dancing.

5. What is Bouchalka's real passion in the world of music?
(a) Conducting.
(b) Singing.
(c) Composing.
(d) The violin.

6. Why would it be natural that Brown gets along well with Poppas?
(a) Brown was in the military for many years and had to continually make new friends at new duty stations.
(b) Brown, as an investor, gets along with everyone.
(c) Brown took a Carnegie course about winning friends and influencing people.
(d) Brown has twelve brothers and sisters and learned the art of communicating from his infancy onward.

7. Where does Bouchalka become a regular attendee?
(a) At Cressida's on Sunday afternoons.
(b) At the New York yankees ball games.
(c) At Carrie's book club meeting each month.
(d) To hear Cressida sing at the Met.

8. What is Henry Gilbert's occupation?
(a) A physician.
(b) A financier.
(c) A lawyer.
(d) A CEO.

9. Who is named executors of Cressida's will?
(a) Jerome Brown.
(b) Horace.
(c) Poppas.
(d) Henry Gilbert and Carrie.

10. With whom do Carrie and Henry stand on one matter of Cressida's will?
(a) Horace.
(b) Poppas.
(c) Jerome.
(d) Lilly.

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

12. As Carrie is observing the men in Cressida's car while awaiting word of survivors, what does she wonder?
(a) If Cressida maybe survives, but walks away from them all.
(b) If they are already counting their inheritance.
(c) If any of them would have sacrificed his life for Cressida's life.
(d) If Cressida would return to these men if she could.

13. To what does Bouchalka compare the cakes served at Cressida's home?
(a) The cake his mother loved.
(b) Food served at Jewish seder.
(c) Food from his native country.
(d) Communion wafers.

14. To where does Poppas move?
(a) London.
(b) Rangoon.
(c) His city in Asia.
(d) Mexico.

15. What suggests that the violin player is either overly excited or dramatic?
(a) His gestures.
(b) His actions and he is wearing tight clothes.
(c) His face is sweaty.
(d) He is walking all over the stage.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Poppas think of what Bouchalka sends Cressida?

2. How does Bouchalka explain Cressida's discovery?

3. What disappoints Cressida's sisters?

4. How does Carrie view the letters from Cressida to family members?

5. How does Cressida realize she is recognized in the restaurant?

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