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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Catherine's favorite composer respond when she asks him about music and influences?

2. How does Catherine's mother tell her that her relative was treated for depression?

3. What happens when Catherine tries to play a piece that she hasn't finished writing for her favorite composer?

4. Who else in Catherine's family was depressed according to her mother?

5. Who does her mother say will do Catherine's hair for the funeral?

Short Essay Questions

1. Where does Mrs. MeKenna go when they come back from the funeral and what does she tell those that offer her condolences?

2. How did Catherine react to the praise she received from Lemberg when she won the Moncrieff-Hewitt Award?

3. What does Catherine remember about her teachers and classmates?

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

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

6. Why is the pub closed?

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

8. How did Catherine feel about the drums and how did they make her feel?

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

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

What is Miss Bingham's real purpose in Catherine's life? How does Catherine repay Miss Bingham? Do you believe Catherine treats Miss Bingham well? Why or why not?

Essay Topic 2

How does Catherine feel when she tells her mother about Anna? How does Catherine's mother react? Why do you think she reacts this way?

Essay Topic 3

In what ways is Catherine isolated? Does she isolate herself? Why or why not?

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