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

2. What do Catherine and her mother talk about as they drink brandy?
(a) Talk about Catherine's life away from home.
(b) Talk about the changes to the house.
(c) Talk about her father.
(d) Talk about Anna.

3. Which of the following was one of the changes Catherine noticed to her house?
(a) There is new furniture in all of the rooms.
(b) The piano has been removed.
(c) There are now CDs and a CD player.
(d) They have added on an extra room.

4. What does Catherine's mother say about her after learning she had a child?
(a) She is a heathen.
(b) She is unclean.
(c) She is dirty.
(d) She is dishonest.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What was Catherine's job for Christmas dinner?

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

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

4. What does Catherine say to her mother when she sees her for the first time?

5. Why does Catherine choose to conform when she is home?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What does Catherine remember about her teachers and classmates?

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

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

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

6. How does Paddy comfort Catherine and how does she know him?

7. What excuse does Catherine offer on the walk home when her mother asks what is wrong?

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

9. What does Catherine remember about her father?

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

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