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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Where had the narrator's father "spent his war" as explained in paragraph 13?
(a) In combat.
(b) At university.
(c) In Canada.
(d) At an air force training grounds.

2. What does the narrator say is the greatest difficulty of her mother's blindness in paragraph 15?
(a) Not being able to see her grandchildren.
(b) Not being able to look at old photographs.
(c) Not being able to clean her own house.
(d) Not being able to read.

3. What detail about Anna does the narrator note was not mentioned in the newspaper accounts of the disaster?
(a) She was badly injured.
(b) She was pregnant.
(c) She was Harold's wife.
(d) She was blind.

4. In paragraph 6, what does the narrator say her mother is able to live comfortably in?
(a) Extreme elements.
(b) The spotlight.
(c) Extreme poverty.
(d) Their farmhouse.

5. Who is said to have taken Anna in as a child and trained her to perform?
(a) Her neighbors.
(b) The ringleader.
(c) Her aunt.
(d) The Avalons.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What does the narrator point out in paragraph one about how her mother moves through the house?

3. After reading paragraph 1, what do readers learn about the narrator's mother's former partner?

4. What does the narrator say her mother did the first time she owes her existence to her?

5. Why did Anna and her second husband move to an old farmhouse after they married?

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