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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How did Anna get to her daughter's room on the night of the fire?
(a) She climbed the tree.
(b) She ran to the front door.
(c) She launched herself up with a pole.
(d) She stood on her husband's shoulders.

2. What is the first thing Anna did the day of the disaster when she did not feel her husband's hands?
(a) She tore off her blindfold.
(b) She lost control and fell.
(c) She grasped his ankle.
(d) She screamed for help.

3. What did Anna and Harold do "openly" as they performed according to paragraph 5?
(a) Fumble and fall.
(b) Yell and argue.
(c) Sing and dance.
(d) Laugh and flirt.

4. What had happened to the extension ladder during the fire?
(a) It caught on fire.
(b) Somebody stole it.
(c) They could not extend it.
(d) It broke in half.

5. Why did Anna and her second husband move to an old farmhouse after they married?
(a) They had both always dreamed of sign in an old farmhouse.
(b) Anna's first husband built it.
(c) He had inherited it.
(d) Anna had inherited it.

Short Answer Questions

1. What did the narrator's mother know as soon as she came upon the house during the fire?

2. Where does the narrator say the tabloids carried the story of their town's disaster?

3. How is Anna's tap on her daughter's window described in paragraph 24?

4. Why is the narrator easily able to pick her sister's gravestone from afar?

5. In paragraph 18, the narrator says her father was "perpetually exhausted" from what?

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