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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part 1.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What happens when Catherine tries to play a piece that she hasn't finished writing for her favorite composer?
(a) His dog tries to mount her.
(b) He falls asleep in the chair.
(c) He interrupts her.
(d) His wife faints and has to be taken away.

2. What does Catherine say to her mother when she sees her for the first time?
(a) She is angry she wasn't notified sooner.
(b) She apologizes.
(c) She can't speak and only cries.
(d) She asks what happened.

3. What does Catherine think about when she watches and hears the dirt being thrown on her father's coffin?
(a) How her mother and father loved each other.
(b) The first time she played the piano for her father.
(c) A Christmas Eve when she was 11.
(d) When she first moved out of her parents home.

4. What are grace notes according to this novel?
(a) Short, quick notes.
(b) Notes between musical notes.
(c) The hidden melody in a piece.
(d) Extra notes in a composition.

5. What kind of business did Catherine's father own?
(a) Music studio.
(b) School.
(c) Pub.
(d) Shop.

Short Answer Questions

1. Catherine's mother accuses Catherine of what in regard to her mother's religious beliefs?

2. Why can't Miss Bingham play the piano anymore?

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

4. Why does Catherine tell her mother she is working on a mass?

5. When Catherine and her mother go to meet her father at the train station when she was 11, what embarrassed her mother?

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