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

2. What happens when Catherine tries to play a piece that she hasn't finished writing for her favorite composer?
(a) He falls asleep in the chair.
(b) His wife faints and has to be taken away.
(c) He interrupts her.
(d) His dog tries to mount her.

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

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

5. Where did Miss Bingham often take Catherine?
(a) Tea parties in Belgrade.
(b) London for plays.
(c) Scotland for recitals.
(d) Concerts in Belfast.

Short Answer Questions

1. What was the first lie Catherine had ever told about?

2. When Catherine and her mother go to meet her father at the train station when she was 11, what embarrassed her mother?

3. Why does Catherine ring the bell to get in her house?

4. Who is Catherine thinking about as she boards the plane?

5. What does Catherine's mother make her to calm her down?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

9. What did Catherine play for her mother and how did her mother react?

10. What was one of the things her first music teacher taught Catherine?

(see the answer keys)

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