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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. How does Catherine's mother tell her that her relative was treated for depression?
(a) Commitment.
(b) Therapy.
(c) Electric shock therapy.
(d) Pills.

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

5. How does Catherine feel when she looks down at Anna?
(a) Anger.
(b) Relief.
(c) Fear.
(d) Surprise.

Short Answer Questions

1. What did Catherine's music give to Miss Bingham?

2. Why does Catherine say that her music was in the newspaper?

3. What happens when Catherine tries to play a piece that she hasn't finished writing for her favorite composer?

4. What does Liz tell Catherine?

5. Why did Miss Bingham ride her bicycle?

Short Essay Questions

1. What do Catherine and her mother see at the grave site when they go to visit?

2. What question did Huang Xiao Gang ask Catherine and what does she remember him discussing about sound?

3. What does Catherine remember about her father?

4. How did Catherine feel about the drums and how did they make her feel?

5. What does the young priest who performed Catherine's father's ceremony ask her?

6. What happened in Catherine's hometown according to the bus driver?

7. What did Catherine remember listening to as she rode on the bus through her hometown?

8. What happens as Catherine plays a song she hasn't finished writing for Melnichuck?

9. When Catherine and her mother go to pick up her father at the train station and he is drunk, how does Catherine feel?

10. Why doesn't Catherine play very well when she is playing for Melnichuch and what is his response to her playing?

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