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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part 2.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Catherine tell her father is the reason she won't be home for Christmas?
(a) She has to work to pay for school.
(b) She doesn't want to talk to them anymore.
(c) She won a scholarship.
(d) She is tired of fighting.

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

3. How much money does Catherine say she will get for the composition she is working on called Vernicle?
(a) $20.
(b) $2,000.
(c) $200.
(d) $20,000.

4. What does Catherine wonder how to tell her mother?
(a) About her depression.
(b) About her new job.
(c) About Anna.
(d) About her memories of her father.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Which word does Catherine use to describe how she is worried about her composition as rehearsals start?

2. What was Catherine's father disappointed to miss that he received many phone calls about?

3. What does Catherine's mother say that she has become?

4. What did Catherine do when she was a child and her parents fought?

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

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