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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Catherine think her father would have hated in the piece she played on the radio?
(a) The accompaniment.
(b) The drums.
(c) The speed.
(d) The length.

2. Why were some of the buildings in Catherine's town boarded up?
(a) The major business in the town had left and so had many people.
(b) There was a bombing.
(c) A flood had ravaged the town.
(d) There was high unemployment.

3. What does Catherine decide to wear to her father's funeral?
(a) Her black graduation skirt.
(b) The dress she wore to her aunt's.
(c) A shirt of her fathers.
(d) Her favorite pair of jeans.

4. What does Catherine think the drumming is?
(a) A revelation.
(b) The same as bells.
(c) Depressing.
(d) A lot of noise.

5. Who is Catherine's favorite composer?
(a) Mozart.
(b) Melnichuck.
(c) Haydn.
(d) Olga.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who does her mother say will do Catherine's hair for the funeral?

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

3. What do Catherine and her mother talk about as they drink brandy?

4. How does Catherine feel when she wakes up at four thirty the morning after her father's funeral?

5. Why does Catherine ring the bell to get in her house?

(see the answer key)

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