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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. What does Catherine look for as she rides through her hometown?

2. What does Catherine say to her mother when she sees her for the first time?

3. What do Catherine and Geraldine have in common?

4. Which of the following is the main character of this novel?

5. What was Catherine's father disappointed to miss that he received many phone calls about?

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. What did Catherine remember listening to as she rode on the bus through her hometown?

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

4. How does Catherine's father look when she sees him again?

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

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

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

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

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

10. Why does Catherine decide she can't wear jeans to her father's funeral?

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

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

Where does Catherine get her love of music? Who shows her how to work with this love? How does this love help her throughout her life?

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