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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 job did Catherine quit to write music?

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

3. Which of the following characters does Catherine realize died and received a military grave while she was in Scotland?

4. What does Catherine tell Liz?

5. What does Catherine's mother say that she has become?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

10. How did Catherine's father explain the Orangemen to Catherine?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

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

Essay Topic 2

What influence do you think Anna has had on Catherine's life? Why do you think she has had this influence?

Essay Topic 3

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?

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