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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. How did Miss Bingham describe Catherine's work?
(a) Surprising and catchy.
(b) Inconsistent and spiraling.
(c) Powerful and difficult.
(d) Moody and changing.

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

4. What does Catherine's favorite composer ask her to do?
(a) Write him a piece of music.
(b) Play for him.
(c) Stay at his home.
(d) Read to him.

5. What does Catherine think about when she watches and hears the dirt being thrown on her father's coffin?
(a) The first time she played the piano for her father.
(b) When she first moved out of her parents home.
(c) A Christmas Eve when she was 11.
(d) How her mother and father loved each other.

Short Answer Questions

1. What do Catherine and Geraldine have in common?

2. What is Catherine surprised to see when she gets to town?

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

4. How does Catherine decide to head home from the airport?

5. What does Catherine say to her mother when she sees her for the first time?

(see the answer key)

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