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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 find to be a repetition she wants to escape?
(a) Anna's first birthday party plans.
(b) Having to do what Dave wants.
(c) Being beaten by Dave.
(d) Caring for the baby.

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

3. How does Catherine describes Dave's action of not showing up to pick her up from the airport after having Anna?
(a) Defeating.
(b) Surprising.
(c) Unusual.
(d) Typical.

4. Why do the nuns tell Catherine to walk around?
(a) Her labor pains have stopped.
(b) It eases the pain.
(c) To pass the time until David arrives.
(d) To keep her from crying.

5. How does her father react to the news that she won't be coming home for Christmas?
(a) He stops talking to her.
(b) He is angry.
(c) He says that he is relieved.
(d) He hands the phone to her mother.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Liz do to try and reassure Catherine about her performance?

2. What vow does Catherine make in regards to her daughter right after she is born?

3. Why does Catherine hate winter?

4. What type of rhythm comes to Catherine as she thinks about celebration music?

5. Which word does Catherine use to describe how she is worried about her composition as rehearsals start?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Catherine realize will happen the longer she lives without telling her parents about her child?

2. What does Catherine remember happening between her and her parents and what does she do because of it during her postgraduate year in Glasgow?

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

4. What would Catherine do when her parents would fight?

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

6. What does Catherine realize about the celebration of birth through music?

7. 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?

8. What excuse does Dave give to Catherine for not coming to see her and Anna in the hospital?

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

10. Who takes Catherine to the ambulance and what does he tell her about the hospital?

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