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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What condition does the narrator's mother have as explained in paragraph 1?
(a) She is blind.
(b) She is paralyzed.
(c) She has dementia.
(d) She is deaf.

3. How did Anna and her daughter escape the house fire?
(a) They climbed down the tree.
(b) They ran down the stairs and out the front door.
(c) They climbed down the fire escape.
(d) They jumped out the window into a fire fighter's net.

4. How many times does the narrator say she owes her existence to her mother?
(a) 3.
(b) 2.
(c) Dozens.
(d) 9.

5. What did the narrator's mother know as soon as she came upon the house during the fire?
(a) The baby-sitter started the fire.
(b) There was no way to rescue her daughter.
(c) Her daughter was dead.
(d) The fire was her fault.

Short Answer Questions

1. What detail about Anna does the narrator note was not mentioned in the newspaper accounts of the disaster?

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

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

4. What was the suspected cause of the house fire?

5. Where did the narrator's mother and father meet?

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