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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 mother want to walk home?

2. When they get back to the pub after the funeral, what is Catherine overwhelmed with a desire to do?

3. How old is Anna?

4. What does Catherine wonder how to tell her mother?

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

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. Why is the pub closed?

4. What does Catherine think had been improving until this situation and what did her doctor tell her about it?

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

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

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

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

9. What happens as Catherine plays a song she hasn't finished writing for Melnichuck?

10. What does Catherine remember about her father?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

In what ways does Catherine's creation of music mirror the way she views her child? How does she feel about both? Does she love one more? Why or why not?

Essay Topic 2

In what ways does Catherine see Ireland through the eyes of a child? In what ways does she see Ireland as if for the first time?

Essay Topic 3

How does Postpartum depression affect Catherine? Do you think Catherine may have been depressed before she had the baby? Why or why not?

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