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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 job did Catherine quit to write music?

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

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

4. How does Catherine's mother want to walk home?

5. What kind of business did Catherine's father own?

Short Essay Questions

1. When Catherine and her mother go to pick up her father at the train station and he is drunk, how does Catherine feel?

2. How did Catherine feel about the drums and how did they make her feel?

3. Why is the pub closed?

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

5. How did the salt shaker get a crease in it?

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

7. Why does Catherine decide she can't wear jeans to her father's funeral?

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

9. What does Catherine remember about her father?

10. What happens as Catherine plays a song she hasn't finished writing for Melnichuck?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Where does Catherine get her love of music? Who shows her how to work with this love? How does this love help her throughout her life?

Essay Topic 2

In what ways does Catherine's creation of music mirror the way she views her child? How does she feel about both? Does she love one more? Why or why not?

Essay Topic 3

In what ways are Catherine's parents responsible for the separation between them? In what ways is Catherine responsible for the separation? Who do you believe is more to blame and why do you feel that way?

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