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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the narrator's name?
(a) Chessy.
(b) Carrie.
(c) Suzanne.
(d) Miffy.

2. Why do Carrie and Cressida walk away together?
(a) So they can talk privately.
(b) So the photographers can't find them.
(c) To have a sexual liaison.
(d) To go make arrangements to walk Cressida's dog.

3. What is Cressida's response to what the deck steward hands her?
(a) She asks if the Kentucky Derby is over.
(b) She nods acceptance.
(c) She gulps it down.
(d) She is flustered.

4. Who among Cressida's inner circle understands the source of her fortune?
(a) Lilly.
(b) Julia.
(c) Horace.
(d) Poppas.

5. What do Cressida and Poppas have for each other?
(a) Mutual respect.
(b) Admiration.
(c) The ability to practically read each other's minds.
(d) A love/hate tension.

Short Answer Questions

1. How might Cressida's health be described?

2. Who is Jerome Brown?

3. What is probably the most positive emotion that exists between Poppas and Julie?

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

5. Why is Cressida not surprised to encounter Carrie?

Short Essay Questions

1. Do you believe that Cressida's family would have been happy just to have Cressida's love and good wishes rather than her money?

2. What might give the reader an indication of the depth of friendship between Carrie and Cressida?

3. Of what does nights like the one Cressida and Carrie are enjoying at Central Park remind Cressida?

4. How well does Poppas know and understand Cressida?

5. Why do you think Cressida would have chosen an accompanist and teacher over her marriage?

6. How does Carrie evaluate Jerome's effect on Cressida? Carrie uses the word "rapacious" to describe his actions, what does this word mean in the context of Jerome Brown as a financier?

7. Why does the narrator believe managers often choose Cressida over other more talented stars?

8. What in the events of Cressida getting to know Bouchalka might be a hint to Cressida that Bouchalka might ultimately prove an unreliable spouse?

9. At what do Cressida's sisters marvel about Cressida and how is that not completely true?

10. Describe a little about the relationship between Cressida and her two sisters.

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