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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. Why is the main character going to Ireland?
(a) To play a concert.
(b) Her father's funeral.
(c) To visit her new nephew.
(d) For a vacation.

2. What does Catherine say to her mother when she sees her for the first time?
(a) She asks what happened.
(b) She can't speak and only cries.
(c) She is angry she wasn't notified sooner.
(d) She apologizes.

3. Where does Catherine go to view the body of her father?
(a) Her childhood bedroom.
(b) Down to the funeral home.
(c) Her parents' bedroom.
(d) To the main floor of the pub.

4. How did Catherine's father die?
(a) A massive heart attack in the pub.
(b) Cancer that slowly took his life.
(c) A pneumonia like illness in the hospital.
(d) A stroke in his sleep.

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 throw away the note she found?

2. What kind of business did Catherine's father own?

3. What did the Chinese restaurant have to do to be able to stay in business?

4. How does Catherine decide to head home from the airport?

5. How old is Anna?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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