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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. How does Claude get from New York state to the state in which the music festival is held?
(a) His mother drives him in her taxi.
(b) Train.
(c) Bus.
(d) He drives himself.

2. What item does the Fisk housekeeper give to Claude when he arrives to go to the dance with Catherine?
(a) A shiny pebble.
(b) A gold chain.
(c) A small wooden cross.
(d) A string of wooden beads.

3. What adjective describes Claude's feelings when he learns that Catherine has eloped?
(a) Relieved.
(b) Indifferent.
(c) Devastated.
(d) Overjoyed.

4. Whom does Catherine confide in before she leaves to elope?
(a) Claude's mother.
(b) Peter Fisk.
(c) No one.
(d) Her mother.

5. What is the Schoenberg twelve-tone system?
(a) A new type of piano.
(b) An emergency alert system.
(c) A metronome.
(d) A method of music composition.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why can't Claude keep the Bechstein piano left to him by the maestro in his apartment?

2. In addition to Peter Fisk, whom does Claude accompany at a dinner party for a large group of influential people in the Fisk home?

3. How does Claude come to accompany Peter Fisk as he plays?

4. What used to be in the room that Peter Fisk shows Claude while he waits to go to the dance with Catherine?

5. Why can't Mr. Weisfeld attend Claude's debut performance at the music festival?

Short Essay Questions

1. Regarding the music store, how does Claude show his love for Mr. Weisfeld after Mr. Weisfeld's death?

2. Compare the effect Claude's piano playing has on him with the effect Emma's letter-writing on the typewriter has on her.

3. While Lady and Claude live in the townhome in Manhattan, what do we learn about Lady from her jobs and activities, and her attitude toward Claude after Mr. Weisfeld dies?

4. How does Mr. Powers react to Claude's choice of career?

5. What disadvantage does Claude face as he enters high society?

6. What generalization can be made about the Fisk family's approach to fads or trends?

7. Why doesn't Claude understand why Mr. and Mrs. Powers treat him the way they do?

8. How has Catherine's attitude toward Claude changed from when they were children?

9. What evidence is there that Claude does not relate well to children, especially regarding the movies and Catherine Marsh?

10. Why is driving a cab an unusual choice of work for Emma, Claude's mother?

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