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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is currently in the room shown to Claude by Peter Fisk?
(a) A grand piano.
(b) Exotic plants.
(c) War paraphernalia.
(d) Electric trains.

2. Who tells Claude that Catherine has eloped?
(a) Peter Fisk.
(b) Ivan Andrews.
(c) Catherine.
(d) Mrs. Fisk.

3. How does Catherine treat Claude at the Bentley School dance?
(a) She moves back and forth between Claude and her own group of friends.
(b) She introduces Claude to a girl, then goes her own way.
(c) She remains by his side the whole night.
(d) She ignores him.

4. How does Claude feel about Catherine?
(a) He thinks of her as his best friend.
(b) He cruelly teases her.
(c) He ignores her.
(d) He is love struck.

5. What used to be in the room that Peter Fisk shows Claude while he waits to go to the dance with Catherine?
(a) Exotic plants.
(b) Electric trains.
(c) War paraphernalia.
(d) A grand piano.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Mr. Weisfeld react when Claude rushes from the basement of the music store and wakes Mr. Weisfeld in his apartment in the middle of the night?

2. What is Mr. Larkin's position at a college named Cadbury?

3. In addition to the Bechstein piano, what else does the maestro include in his trust for Claude?

4. What business arrangement does Claude enter into with Al Johnson, a maintenance man?

5. Who invites Claude to a piano performance at Carnegie Hall?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does Aldo Frescobaldi's relationship with Claude affect Claude?

2. Contrast Peter Fisk's feeling for music with Claude's feeling for music.

3. What is the reader led to believe about Claude because Emma does not reveal any concrete information about Claude's father?

4. What is the importance of the seats Emma and Claude's real father choose to sit in and watch his performance, even though they have not been in contact for many years?

5. Summarize the pivotal events which occur in Claude's life from the time Mr. Fredericks asks Claude to play at a music festival with him to the time he meets Mr. Larkin, who is on a college scholarship committee.

6. When Mr. Weisfeld, Mr. Levits, Claude, and Emma meet in Mr. Larkin's office, what plans emerge regarding Claude's musical career?

7. Why does Mr. Weisfeld panic when Claude awakens him at four o'clock in the morning to share his new composition?

8. What does Catherine Fisk tell Claude when he asks her why she invited him to the Bentley School mixer?

9. What does Claude realize about Mr. Weisfeld's feelings for him only after Mr. Weisfeld dies?

10. How does a chance discovery at the movies affect Claude's future?

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