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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Catherine ask before she agrees to play the organ at the formal services for her father the next day?
(a) If he has the music already picked out.
(b) If there will be a lot of people there.
(c) If there is someone else to do it.
(d) If it is the same organ from her childhood.

2. Why does Catherine say that her music was in the newspaper?
(a) Because she is an unmarried pregnant woman.
(b) Because she has been very fortunate.
(c) Because she is a woman in a man's world.
(d) Because she is a Roman Catholic using Protestant drums.

3. Who does her mother say will do Catherine's hair for the funeral?
(a) Paddy.
(b) Geraldine.
(c) Anna.
(d) Megan.

4. How does Catherine decide to head home from the airport?
(a) Taxi.
(b) Anna's father picks her up.
(c) Walking.
(d) Bus.

5. Who is Catherine thinking about as she boards the plane?
(a) Her mother.
(b) Her father.
(c) Her brother.
(d) Her baby.

6. What term does Catherine's father use to describe some of the actions taken by the Protestants?
(a) Excellent musicians.
(b) Dedicated.
(c) Orangemen.
(d) Bigots.

7. Why does Catherine's mother want them to go to the graveyard the day after her father was buried?
(a) She cannot let go and needs to visit him.
(b) She needs to check and maker sure that things are okay with him.
(c) She wants to gather up the cards.
(d) She said they didn't have a chance to pray because too much was going on.

8. How does Miss Bingham react to hearing that Catherine had a child?
(a) She congratulates her.
(b) She is ashamed of her.
(c) She is not surprised.
(d) She is shocked.

9. What job did Catherine quit to write music?
(a) Traveling musician.
(b) Teaching.
(c) Director.
(d) Orchestra.

10. What was the first lie Catherine had ever told about?
(a) Skipping school.
(b) Drugs.
(c) Drinking.
(d) A boy.

11. What disease does Catherine suffer from?
(a) Cancer.
(b) Depression.
(c) Acid reflux.
(d) Anxiety.

12. Where does Catherine stop on the way to Miss Bingham's house?
(a) Her father's grave.
(b) To try once again to talk to her mother.
(c) The church to go to confession.
(d) A store to buy some chocolates.

13. What does Catherine's father think the drumming is?
(a) A revelation.
(b) Thrilling.
(c) A lot of noise.
(d) The same as bells.

14. What does Catherine decide to wear to her father's funeral?
(a) Her black graduation skirt.
(b) Her favorite pair of jeans.
(c) The dress she wore to her aunt's.
(d) A shirt of her fathers.

15. How does Catherine feel about her desire to die?
(a) She feels incompetent.
(b) She feels in complete despair.
(c) She feels selfish for that thought.
(d) She feels resigned to the idea.

Short Answer Questions

1. What did Catherine have to do after she got caught lying?

2. What does Catherine think the drumming is?

3. What kind of depression does Catherine confess to her mother she has?

4. What does lying around in bed remind Catherine of?

5. What does Catherine think about when she watches and hears the dirt being thrown on her father's coffin?

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