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

2. What does Catherine do whenever she feels herself getting the flu?
(a) The desire to listen to music.
(b) The need to be in bed.
(c) The desire to hear Buchner.
(d) The need to write.

3. Why does Catherine wonder if she should pray?
(a) She doesn't believe in God.
(b) Her father would think better of her.
(c) The nuns are not there to help her.
(d) The pain is so intense.

4. What does walking on the beach with Anna remind Catherine about in regards to her students?
(a) The sound of the water beating the shore.
(b) The time interval of the tides.
(c) What might happen if she gives up her music.
(d) How writing music makes her feel.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. How old was Catherine when she started taking piano lessons?

2. What did the Chinese restaurant have to do to be able to stay in business?

3. Why does Catherine call the district nurse?

4. How does Miss Bingham feel about Catherine?

5. What does Catherine's mother say about her after learning she had a child?

(see the answer key)

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