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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Paragraphs 9 - 15 .

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What did the narrator's mother once tell her one would be amazed by?
(a) How many things a mother can do.
(b) How much money a trapeze artist makes.
(c) How many things you can do when falling.
(d) How scared she was each time she performed.

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

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

4. What did Anna's second husband teach her to do while in hospital?
(a) Speak Spanish.
(b) Read.
(c) Play chess.
(d) Walk again.

5. Where was Harold Avalon buried?
(a) He was cremated.
(b) In the family plot in the backyard.
(c) In the cemetery near their house.
(d) In the circus cemetery.

Short Answer Questions

1. What happened to Anna's baby after the disaster?

2. What is the narrator's mother's name?

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

4. How does the narrator say she often thought of her sister when she was young?

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

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