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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Catherine decide to wear to her father's funeral?
(a) The dress she wore to her aunt's.
(b) Her favorite pair of jeans.
(c) Her black graduation skirt.
(d) A shirt of her fathers.

2. How much was the prize when Catherine won the Moncrieff-Hewitt Award for her Piano Trio?
(a) Travel around Scotland.
(b) 1,000 pounds.
(c) Free tuition for a year.
(d) A new piano.

3. How does Anna get from the plane to her hometown?
(a) Train.
(b) Cab.
(c) Mother picks her up.
(d) Bus.

4. What job did Catherine quit to write music?
(a) Director.
(b) Teaching.
(c) Traveling musician.
(d) Orchestra.

5. How does Catherine feel when she wakes up at four thirty the morning after her father's funeral?
(a) Resigned.
(b) Angry.
(c) Confused.
(d) In a panic.

6. What kind of business did Catherine's father own?
(a) Music studio.
(b) School.
(c) Shop.
(d) Pub.

7. What does Catherine tell Miss Bingham she is working on?
(a) A Latin mass.
(b) A drum piece.
(c) A voice piece.
(d) A Catholic mass.

8. Where does Catherine go to view the body of her father?
(a) Her parents' bedroom.
(b) Her childhood bedroom.
(c) To the main floor of the pub.
(d) Down to the funeral home.

9. What does Catherine's mother say that she has become?
(a) Disrespectful.
(b) A heathen.
(c) A proper lady.
(d) A disappointment.

10. What name does Catherine's mother cry and repeat over and over?
(a) Paddy.
(b) Catie.
(c) Anna.
(d) Brendan.

11. How does Catherine's mother want to walk home?
(a) Through the graveyard.
(b) Through the countryside.
(c) Through the woods.
(d) Through downtown.

12. What kind of thoughts does Catherine try to control on the ride to see Anna?
(a) Sad.
(b) Positive.
(c) Negative.
(d) Inconsistent.

13. How old is Anna?
(a) 6 months.
(b) 3 months.
(c) 18 months.
(d) 20 months.

14. Who is Catherine's favorite composer?
(a) Olga.
(b) Melnichuck.
(c) Mozart.
(d) Haydn.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Catherine do after the funeral when they get back to the house?

2. Which of the following is not one of the things that Huang told Catherine that all compositions must have?

3. How does Catherine feel about her desire to die?

4. What does Catherine tell Liz?

5. What does Catherine's father think the drumming is?

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