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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part 1.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. When Catherine and her mother go to meet her father at the train station when she was 11, what embarrassed her mother?
(a) His public displays of affection.
(b) His cussing.
(c) His constant loud complaining of other people.
(d) His drunken behavior.

2. What is Catherine thinking about when she wakes up at four thirty in the morning?
(a) Anna and what is happening in Glasgow.
(b) Her father and how much she misses him.
(c) How she will do playing the organ.
(d) Her mother and how she will move on.

3. What are grace notes according to this novel?
(a) Extra notes in a composition.
(b) Short, quick notes.
(c) Notes between musical notes.
(d) The hidden melody in a piece.

4. Which of the following is not one of the things that Huang told Catherine that all compositions must have?
(a) Tail.
(b) Head.
(c) Body.
(d) Brain.

5. How long ago did Catherine have a child?
(a) One year.
(b) Three months.
(c) One week.
(d) Two months.

Short Answer Questions

1. Which of the following is the main character of this novel?

2. Which of the following characters does Catherine realize died and received a military grave while she was in Scotland?

3. What does Catherine think about when she watches and hears the dirt being thrown on her father's coffin?

4. What does Catherine's favorite composer ask her to do?

5. How does Catherine's mother react to the news that Catherine had a child?

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