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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 feel when she looks down at Anna?

2. Why does Catherine say that her music was in the newspaper?

3. What did Catherine have to do after she got caught lying?

4. Why did Miss Bingham ride her bicycle?

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

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. How does Paddy comfort Catherine and how does she know him?

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

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

6. Why doesn't Catherine play very well when she is playing for Melnichuch and what is his response to her playing?

7. What was one of the things her first music teacher taught Catherine?

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

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

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

What does Catherine focus on while she is in Ireland? Why do you think she focuses on this? Does this help or harm her? Why do you feel this way?

Essay Topic 2

What does the title of the novel have to do with the plot and ideas introduced in the novel? Do you believe it is a good title? Why or why not?

Essay Topic 3

In the first half of the novel, two worlds clash for Catherine. What are these two worlds? Why do you think they clash? Is this clash ever resolved? Why or why not?

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