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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 want music to celebrate?
(a) The surprise of unexpected feelings.
(b) The idea that miracles happen daily.
(c) The human life cycle.
(d) The birth of an ordinary girl.

2. What does Dave do for a living?
(a) Teaches school.
(b) Plays in the orchestra.
(c) Dives for scallops.
(d) Writes music.

3. Where did Catherine get most of her furniture?
(a) Thrift stores.
(b) Hand-me-downs.
(c) Auctions.
(d) Antique stores.

4. How does Catherine get to the hospital?
(a) David takes her.
(b) Ambulance.
(c) Ambulance plane.
(d) In the doctor's car.

5. What does Catherine find wrong with the house when she goes inside?
(a) It smells like cigarettes.
(b) Dave never finished painting the nursery.
(c) It does not have a space for the crib.
(d) It is dirty.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where did Catherine move when she left Dave's?

2. Why do the nuns tell Catherine to walk around?

3. What does Liz say about Anna?

4. What does Catherine now understand about her mother?

5. What does Catherine think about as labor pains hit her in the ambulance?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does Catherine feel the day she leaves the hospital?

2. Why is Dave able to do work that the big boats cannot do?

3. What is Catherine given as a reward for passing her qualifying exam?

4. Why does Catherine decide she shouldn't pray to God?

5. How does Catherine describe Dave's work and how does she feel about it?

6. How does Catherine's father react to the news that she won't be coming home for Christmas and how does Catherine react to him?

7. What happens when Catherine and Cranny are sewing or making hot water for tea?

8. What is Catherine working on that she remembered learning from her Granny Boyd.

9. What does Liz almost quiz Catherine about and why?

10. What happens in regards to Catherine's contractions and what do the sisters tell her to do?

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