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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 lying around in bed remind Catherine of?
(a) How much she misses her father.
(b) How depressed she was at one point.
(c) The music she is forgetting to write.
(d) Being a child home sick.

2. What does Catherine do after the funeral when they get back to the house?
(a) Puts out the food and drinks for the many visitors.
(b) Hovers over her mother making sure she is okay.
(c) Goes upstairs to take a nap.
(d) Sits in the corner drinking tea.

3. What does Catherine ask before she agrees to play the organ at the formal services for her father the next day?
(a) If it is the same organ from her childhood.
(b) If there will be a lot of people there.
(c) If he has the music already picked out.
(d) If there is someone else to do it.

4. When they get back to the pub after the funeral, what is Catherine overwhelmed with a desire to do?
(a) Drink.
(b) Eat.
(c) Smoke.
(d) Cry.

5. Why does Catherine tell her mother she is working on a mass?
(a) Because of the structure and form of it.
(b) Because of her depression.
(c) Because of the religious significance.
(d) Because of her father's death.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Catherine's mother tell her that her relative was treated for depression?

2. What does Catherine's mother notice and ask her about when she wakes her up?

3. What happens when Catherine tries to play a piece that she hasn't finished writing for her favorite composer?

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

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

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