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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 in the house did the fire start?
(a) In the den.
(b) Near the stove.
(c) In the narrator's room.
(d) In the attic.

2. According to paragraph 4, during what month did Anna experience her disaster?
(a) February.
(b) June.
(c) November.
(d) September.

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

4. What did the narrator recall once she woke up in the midst of the house fire?
(a) How to call the police.
(b) A movie she saw about a house fire.
(c) Her second grade fire drill.
(d) To scream for help.

5. What does the narrator suggest may have been Harold's final thought as he fell into the crowd on the day of the disaster?
(a) Anna is with child.
(b) A surprise that he did not have Anna's hands in his.
(c) I don't want to die.
(d) I'm going to sue the tent company.

Short Answer Questions

1. What did Anna gesture for her daughter to do once she was outside her window on the night of the fire?

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

3. What is the narrator's father's occupation?

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

5. In paragraph 15, why does the narrator say she came to stay with her mother after her father's death?

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