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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 is Catherine surprised to see when she gets to town?

2. How does Catherine feel when she wakes up at four thirty the morning after her father's funeral?

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

4. How does Anna get from the plane to her hometown?

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

Short Essay Questions

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

2. Why does Geraldine think she and Catherine are single?

3. How does Catherine's father look when she sees him again?

4. What happened to Catherine when she was a child and had the flu?

5. What did Catherine remember listening to as she rode on the bus through her hometown?

6. How did Catherine react to the praise she received from Lemberg when she won the Moncrieff-Hewitt Award?

7. Why is the pub closed?

8. When did the salt shaker at Catherine's home get a crease in it?

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

10. Where does Mrs. MeKenna go when they come back from the funeral and what does she tell those that offer her condolences?

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

What does Catherine focus on while she is in Ireland? Why do you think she focuses on this? Does this help or harm her? Why do you feel this way?

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