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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. How long ago did Catherine have a child?
(a) Two months.
(b) One week.
(c) Three months.
(d) One year.

4. What does Catherine take with her when she goes to take a nap?
(a) A picture of Anna.
(b) Her father's shirt.
(c) A sheet of music.
(d) A hot water bottle.

5. What kind of depression does Catherine confess to her mother she has?
(a) Bi-polar depression.
(b) Schizophrenic depression.
(c) Manic depression.
(d) Post-natal depression.

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

7. How does Catherine feel about her desire to die?
(a) She feels selfish for that thought.
(b) She feels resigned to the idea.
(c) She feels in complete despair.
(d) She feels incompetent.

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

9. Which of the following characters does Catherine realize died and received a military grave while she was in Scotland?
(a) Patrick.
(b) Paddy.
(c) Anna.
(d) Megan.

10. Catherine's mother accuses Catherine of what in regard to her mother's religious beliefs?
(a) Mocking them.
(b) Mistreating them.
(c) Reinforcing them.
(d) Demeaning them.

11. What does Catherine's mother notice and ask her about when she wakes her up?
(a) Note from her father.
(b) Picture of the little girl.
(c) Book about depression.
(d) Pill bottles on the counter.

12. Why can't Miss Bingham play the piano anymore?
(a) Her coughing constantly interrupts her.
(b) She cannot see the music anymore.
(c) Her piano was repossessed.
(d) Her arthritis is so bad.

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

14. Why is the main character going to Ireland?
(a) To play a concert.
(b) To visit her new nephew.
(c) Her father's funeral.
(d) For a vacation.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What job did Catherine quit to write music?

2. When they get back to the pub after the funeral, what is Catherine overwhelmed with a desire to do?

3. What does Catherine do whenever she feels herself getting the flu?

4. Why does the idea of writing a mass intrigue Catherine?

5. What kind of thoughts does Catherine try to control on the ride to see Anna?

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