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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. After his first performance at the music festival, how many times will Claude have played in front of an audience?
(a) One.
(b) Two.
(c) Ten.
(d) One hundred.

2. Why does Claude dress in a suit and tie for his first session accompanying Peter Fisk at the Fisk home?
(a) Mrs. Fisk instructed Claude to dress formally.
(b) Claude wants to impress Catherine.
(c) An important musician will be observing the session.
(d) Claude knows Mr. Fisk is an influential politician.

3. What movie particularly interests Claude because of its story line, which he relates to his life?
(a) Island in the Sun.
(b) A Summer Place.
(c) A Place in the Sun.
(d) A Raisin in the Sun.

4. What is the relationship between Claude and Ivan Andrews?
(a) Enemies.
(b) Competitors.
(c) Good friends.
(d) Passing acquaintances.

5. What is the result after Claude studies the Schoenberg twelve-tone system?
(a) Claude wants to drop out of school.
(b) Mr. Schoenberg asks Claude to use the new system to perform new compositions.
(c) Claude is asked to help market the new device.
(d) Claude writes his own music.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who do Claude and Emma discover belongs to the Communist Party?

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

3. What is Mr. Weisfeld's opinion about Claude when he returns to Mr. Weisfeld's music store two weeks after he sells the Claude the piano lessons book?

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

5. Where in the building is the apartment in which Claude lives with his mother?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. Why does Mr. Weisfeld panic when Claude awakens him at four o'clock in the morning to share his new composition?

3. After Mr. Powers has Claude's past investigated, what information does Emma give Claude about his father?

4. What is Claude's reaction to the growing relationship between his mother and Al Johnson?

5. What evidence shows the eccentric and flamboyant behavior of Aldo Frescobaldi, the violinist whom Claude accompanies?

6. Why is performing with Mr. Fredericks at a music festival important for Claude?

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

8. Why does Lady respond the way she does to Claude's single-minded focus on preparing for the concert with Aldo Frescobaldi?

9. Why does it bother Claude to play boogie-woogie on the piano at a party given by one of Lady's friends?

10. 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?

(see the answer keys)

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