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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is Catherine surprised to see when she gets to town?
(a) New housing developments.
(b) A statue of her father.
(c) A theater that the Orangemen play in.
(d) A Chinese restaurant and police barracks.

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

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

4. Why does Catherine say that her music was in the newspaper?
(a) Because she has been very fortunate.
(b) Because she is a Roman Catholic using Protestant drums.
(c) Because she is a woman in a man's world.
(d) Because she is an unmarried pregnant woman.

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

6. What happens when Catherine and Anna look at each other in the mirror?
(a) They both cry.
(b) They both make faces.
(c) They both smile.
(d) They both laugh.

7. Why does Catherine's mother want them to go to the graveyard the day after her father was buried?
(a) She said they didn't have a chance to pray because too much was going on.
(b) She needs to check and maker sure that things are okay with him.
(c) She wants to gather up the cards.
(d) She cannot let go and needs to visit him.

8. What does Liz tell Catherine?
(a) Anna's said her first word.
(b) Anna looks just like her.
(c) Anna missed her terribly.
(d) Anna grew two inches.

9. Who does her mother say will do Catherine's hair for the funeral?
(a) Megan.
(b) Paddy.
(c) Anna.
(d) Geraldine.

10. How does Catherine decide to head home from the airport?
(a) Walking.
(b) Bus.
(c) Anna's father picks her up.
(d) Taxi.

11. Why does Catherine throw away the note she found?
(a) Because it is reminding her father to meet someone on an unidentified Tuesday.
(b) Because she doesn't want her mother to see it.
(c) Because it brings back too many bad memories.
(d) Because she can't read the writing on it.

12. What did Catherine have to do after she got caught lying?
(a) Go to confession.
(b) Work in the pub for a month.
(c) Write an apology letter.
(d) Clean the entire house.

13. What does Catherine tell Liz?
(a) She didn't recognize her own child for a second.
(b) She thinks Anna doesn't love her.
(c) She wants to pack up Anna and run away.
(d) She is very sad at the loss of her father

14. What disease does Catherine suffer from?
(a) Depression.
(b) Cancer.
(c) Acid reflux.
(d) Anxiety.

15. How old was Catherine when she started taking piano lessons?
(a) 5.
(b) 7.
(c) 10.
(d) 15.

Short Answer Questions

1. Catherine's mother accuses Catherine of what in regard to her mother's religious beliefs?

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

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

4. Who else in Catherine's family was depressed according to her mother?

5. How long ago did Catherine have a child?

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