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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What did Miss Bingham like for Catherine to watch during concerts?
(a) The pianist.
(b) The audience.
(c) The conductor.
(d) The violinist.

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

3. What does Catherine's father think the drumming is?
(a) A revelation.
(b) A lot of noise.
(c) The same as bells.
(d) Thrilling.

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

5. Why does Catherine choose to conform when she is home?
(a) It makes her feel better.
(b) It is easier.
(c) It provides comfort.
(d) It is respectful.

6. When Catherine and her mother go to meet her father at the train station when she was 11, what embarrassed her mother?
(a) His drunken behavior.
(b) His public displays of affection.
(c) His cussing.
(d) His constant loud complaining of other people.

7. Where does Miss Bingham get her only comfort?
(a) Music.
(b) Friends.
(c) Piano.
(d) Religion.

8. 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.

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

10. How does Miss Bingham react to hearing that Catherine had a child?
(a) She is shocked.
(b) She is not surprised.
(c) She is ashamed of her.
(d) She congratulates her.

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

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

13. What do Catherine and Geraldine have in common?
(a) They both like to do hair.
(b) They both are single.
(c) They both lost their father.
(d) They both live in a pub.

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

15. What does Catherine decide will save her?
(a) Her work.
(b) Her mother.
(c) Her husband.
(d) Her positive thoughts.

Short Answer Questions

1. What term does Catherine's father use to describe some of the actions taken by the Protestants?

2. Where does Catherine stop on the way to Miss Bingham's house?

3. How does Catherine decide to head home from the airport?

4. What does Catherine think her father would have hated in the piece she played on the radio?

5. What does Catherine decide to wear to her father's funeral?

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