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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Paragraphs 1 - 8 .

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What metaphor is used in paragraph 5 to describe the way Anna and Harold would drop through the air during their act?
(a) Like two sparkling birds.
(b) Like two peas in a pod.
(c) Like two doves in love.
(d) Like dragonflies in the night.

3. What does the narrator point out in paragraph one about how her mother moves through the house?
(a) She barely moves so as not to disturb anything.
(b) She never bumps into anything or knocks anything over.
(c) She is quite clumsy.
(d) She acts as though her daughter is not there.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What did Harold and Anna do in midair during their act according to paragraph 5?

3. What phrase is used to describe the narrator's mother's movements in paragraph 2?

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

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

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