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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 does Charles Parker, Antonapoulos's cousin do?

2. What do Lucille and Biff both agree on?

3. What happens after Antonapoulos becomes ill?

4. What happens to Singer after Antonapoulos was gone?

5. Why is Dr. Copeland so interested in Mr. Singer?

Short Essay Questions

1. What happens to Mister Singer when he realizes his friend, Antonapoulos is dead?

2. Why does Mick get so upset about the way her homemade violin sounds when she tries to play it?

3. Why did Blount return to Mister Singer's room?

4. Why does Jake insist on going to visit Willie after hears about the young man's situation?

5. Why did Mister Singer arrange a special trip to visit Antonapoulos before his vacation?

6. What do Biff Brannon and his wife, Alice, argue about when they are first introduced to the story?

7. What is happening with Mick in the opening of Part 2, Chapter 14?

8. Why did Biff Brannon seem to be closer to his wife than they were when she was alive?

9. What does Blount want even more than a job?

10. What was it that Biff Brannon and his sister-in-law, Lucille, disagreed on?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Mick Kelly's dream was to be a famous pianist. Was this dream realistic? What would she have had to overcome to achieve her dream? What talent, if any, did she show in the story that might lead the reader to believe this dream might come true one day? Did Mick see being a pianist as a means to travel around the world, or were the dreams to play piano and travel independent of one another?

Essay Topic 2

Why were the conversations with John Singer were mostly one sided. Was it mostly because he was deaf, or because they other characters were content just having someone to talk to?

Essay Topic 3

What are the themes of the story? At your discretion, choose one of the themes and tell which characters fit that theme, and in what ways they fit into that theme of the story.

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