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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part 3: Chapters 17, 18, and 19.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. When does Claude receive a telegram that Mr. Weisfeld cannot attend Claude's debut performance at the music festival?
(a) Just as he is to walk onstage.
(b) The day before the performance.
(c) During the intermission of his performance.
(d) Hours before his performance.

2. What is Claude's physique as a young boy?
(a) Deformed as a result of a birth defect.
(b) Overweight.
(c) Scrawny.
(d) Well-proportioned.

3. What does Mr. Powers discover about Claude's father when he hires a private investigator to look into Claude's past?
(a) Claude's father is one of three men.
(b) There is no record of Claude's father.
(c) Claude's father never returned from the war.
(d) Claude's father is a negro.

4. In addition to Peter Fisk, whom does Claude accompany at a dinner party for a large group of influential people in the Fisk home?
(a) Ivan Andrews.
(b) Mr. Fisk.
(c) Catherine.
(d) Mrs. Fisk.

5. What does Lady say to comfort Claude when he becomes upset after playing the piano for Lady's friends?
(a) He saved a dying party.
(b) Someday he will make a lot of money for playing.
(c) Her friends know nothing about music.
(d) She always cries when she hears that song.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who meets Claude at the train station when he goes to spend the weekend at the Powers'?

2. What causes Claude distress at the first concert venue with Frescobaldi?

3. Why does Claude rush from the basement of Mr. Weisfeld's music store to Mr. Weisfeld's apartment upstairs in the middle of the night?

4. Who helps Claude fight the city government when it wants to tear down the building housing the music store?

5. Why does Claude need to fill in for a pianist who is supposed to perform at the music festival?

(see the answer key)

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