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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 name of the narrator's mother's act?
(a) The Fluttering Angels.
(b) The Flying Avalons.
(c) The Floating Avatars.
(d) The Fledgling Abyssinians.

2. What does the narrator say we hang onto dearly once we have it?
(a) Love.
(b) A home.
(c) Money.
(d) Life.

3. How did Anna's hands get burned during the disaster?
(a) She grabbed onto the tent just as it went up in flames.
(b) Her blind fold was on fire when she removed it.
(c) She grabbed onto a metal wire that was hot from the lighting.
(d) Her handle bars were struck by lightning.

4. What did the narrator notice the moment she woke up during the fire?
(a) Her door was in flames.
(b) The smell of smoke.
(c) The commotion outside.
(d) The baby-sitter was gone.

5. After reading paragraph 1, what do readers learn about the narrator's mother's former partner?
(a) He was unkind.
(b) They had a falling out.
(c) He lives with them.
(d) He has died.

Short Answer Questions

1. In paragraph 2, what does the narrator say she sometimes thinks her mother has no memory of from her youth?

2. What did the narrator's mother once tell her one would be amazed by?

3. What does the narrator say audience members ate while waiting for the act to begin?

4. What did Anna and Harold do "openly" as they performed according to paragraph 5?

5. Who was in the house with the narrator when the fire started?

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