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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 did Catherine have to do after she got caught lying?
(a) Write an apology letter.
(b) Clean the entire house.
(c) Go to confession.
(d) Work in the pub for a month.

2. What term does Catherine's father use to describe some of the actions taken by the Protestants?
(a) Dedicated.
(b) Orangemen.
(c) Bigots.
(d) Excellent musicians.

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

4. What is Catherine surprised to see when she gets to town?
(a) A statue of her father.
(b) New housing developments.
(c) A theater that the Orangemen play in.
(d) A Chinese restaurant and police barracks.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Why does Catherine tell her mother she is working on a mass?

2. What does Catherine decide will save her?

3. What does Liz tell Catherine?

4. What does Catherine's mother say that she has become?

5. Where does Catherine go to view the body of her father?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

5. What does Catherine remember that her father taught her and how did it make her feel?

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

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

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

9. What does Catherine notice as she enters the living quarters above the pub?

10. How does Catherine's father look when she sees him again?

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