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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 month did the house fire occur?
(a) January.
(b) November.
(c) April.
(d) June.

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

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

4. How does the narrator say she often thought of her sister when she was young?
(a) As an unfinished version of herself.
(b) As a ghost.
(c) As a separate person.
(d) As a better version of herself.

5. What sound made the narrator look out the window on the night of the house fire?
(a) The sound of her father screaming.
(b) The snap of a tree branch.
(c) The cracking of thunder.
(d) The thump of her mother landing on the house.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Where had the narrator's father "spent his war" as explained in paragraph 13?

3. After reading paragraph 1, what do readers learn about the narrator's mother's former partner?

4. Why did Anna and her second husband move to an old farmhouse after they married?

5. What does the narrator say seems to happen to her sister's grave as the years progress?

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