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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Paragraphs 16 - 25 .

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the first thing Anna asks her husband to do the night of the house fire?
(a) Help put out the fire.
(b) Go in the house and save their daughter.
(c) Call the police.
(d) Unzip her dress.

2. What did the narrator do during the house fire once she felt the door was too hot?
(a) She screamed for help.
(b) She kicked it open.
(c) She wrapped a shirt around the knob to open it.
(d) She put a rug under the crack.

3. Where does the narrator say she used to live in paragraph 4?
(a) The West.
(b) The South.
(c) The Far East.
(d) The North.

4. In paragraph 18, the narrator says her father was "perpetually exhausted" from what?
(a) Staying up all night reading.
(b) Taking care of a new baby.
(c) Being on-call during night hours.
(d) Drinking late into the night.

5. What did Anna direct one of the volunteers to do on the night of the house fire?
(a) Get out of her way.
(b) Run for more help.
(c) Go in the house and save her daughter.
(d) Lean the broken ladder against the tree trunk.

Short Answer Questions

1. How did Anna get to her daughter's room on the night of the fire?

2. Where had the narrator's father "spent his war" as explained in paragraph 13?

3. What sound does the narrator believe woke her up during the fire?

4. How many acts performed before Anna and her husband's act on the day of the disaster?

5. What month did the house fire occur?

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