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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. Why does Catherine's mother want them to go to the graveyard the day after her father was buried?

2. How old was Catherine when she started taking piano lessons?

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

4. What does Catherine find out is wrong with Miss Bingham?

5. Where does Catherine stop on the way to Miss Bingham's house?

Short Essay Questions

1. How did the salt shaker get a crease in it?

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

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

4. Why is the pub closed?

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

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

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

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

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

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

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 2

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 3

In what ways are Catherine's parents responsible for the separation between them? In what ways is Catherine responsible for the separation? Who do you believe is more to blame and why do you feel that way?

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