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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why does the idea of writing a mass intrigue Catherine?
(a) It is like speaking to God.
(b) It involves numerous instruments.
(c) It would be the longest piece she has written.
(d) So few are written by women.

2. How old was Catherine when she started taking piano lessons?
(a) 15.
(b) 10.
(c) 5.
(d) 7.

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

4. What does Catherine tell Liz?
(a) She wants to pack up Anna and run away.
(b) She thinks Anna doesn't love her.
(c) She didn't recognize her own child for a second.
(d) She is very sad at the loss of her father

5. When they get back to the pub after the funeral, what is Catherine overwhelmed with a desire to do?
(a) Cry.
(b) Eat.
(c) Drink.
(d) Smoke.

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

7. Where does Catherine go to view the body of her father?
(a) To the main floor of the pub.
(b) Down to the funeral home.
(c) Her childhood bedroom.
(d) Her parents' bedroom.

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

9. How does Catherine feel when she wakes up at four thirty the morning after her father's funeral?
(a) In a panic.
(b) Resigned.
(c) Angry.
(d) Confused.

10. What does Catherine think the drumming is?
(a) The same as bells.
(b) Depressing.
(c) A lot of noise.
(d) A revelation.

11. What does Catherine do whenever she feels herself getting the flu?
(a) The desire to listen to music.
(b) The need to be in bed.
(c) The need to write.
(d) The desire to hear Buchner.

12. What does Catherine find out is wrong with Miss Bingham?
(a) She has a nervous tic.
(b) She has emphysema.
(c) She has cancer.
(d) She has stopped smoking.

13. What does Catherine's mother say that she has become?
(a) Disrespectful.
(b) A disappointment.
(c) A proper lady.
(d) A heathen.

14. What does lying around in bed remind Catherine of?
(a) How much she misses her father.
(b) Being a child home sick.
(c) The music she is forgetting to write.
(d) How depressed she was at one point.

15. Which of the following is the main character of this novel?
(a) Catherine.
(b) Anna.
(c) Geraldine.
(d) Georg.

Short Answer Questions

1. What do Catherine and Geraldine have in common?

2. What does Catherine believe a composer does?

3. What name does Catherine's mother cry and repeat over and over?

4. How does Catherine's mother tell her that her relative was treated for depression?

5. Where did Catherine meet her favorite composer?

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