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

2. Where does Catherine stop on the way to Miss Bingham's house?
(a) To try once again to talk to her mother.
(b) The church to go to confession.
(c) A store to buy some chocolates.
(d) Her father's grave.

3. Where did Catherine meet her favorite composer?
(a) Glasgow.
(b) Kiev.
(c) New York.
(d) London.

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

5. What was Catherine's father disappointed to miss that he received many phone calls about?
(a) Her first recital.
(b) Her performance on the radio.
(c) Her college graduation.
(d) Her award winning performance.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Miss Bingham feel about Catherine?

2. What does Catherine believe a composer does?

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

4. How old was Catherine when she started taking piano lessons?

5. What kind of depression does Catherine confess to her mother she has?

Short Essay Questions

1. When did the salt shaker at Catherine's home get a crease in it?

2. How does Catherine wake up from her nap in the spare room?

3. What happened to Catherine when she was a child and had the flu?

4. What does Catherine remember Huang as being able to get away with?

5. Why does Catherine decide she can't wear jeans to her father's funeral?

6. How did Catherine react to the praise she received from Lemberg when she won the Moncrieff-Hewitt Award?

7. Why does Geraldine think she and Catherine are single?

8. How did Catherine's father explain the Orangemen to Catherine?

9. How did the salt shaker get a crease in it?

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

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