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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What stands "cast in concrete" (para. 3) to commemorate the accident?
(a) A replica tent pole.
(b) A feather boa.
(c) A sequined costume.
(d) A statue of trapeze artists.

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

3. What does the narrator sometimes do in her childhood room?
(a) She paints.
(b) She talks on the phone.
(c) She reads.
(d) She sews.

4. What is something the narrator says happens when she is in her room and gets a "whiff of smoke from the stove downstairs" (para.2)?
(a) She knows her mother must be cooking something special.
(b) She scurries to make sure her mother is okay.
(c) She panics and cannot breath.
(d) The stitches burn beneath her fingers.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Where does the narrator and her mother live?

2. What metaphor is used in paragraph 5 to describe the way Anna and Harold would drop through the air during their act?

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

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

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

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