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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 does the narrator say her mother did the first time she owes her existence to her?
(a) She saved herself.
(b) She met her first husband.
(c) She saved her daughter's life.
(d) She was born.

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

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

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

5. In paragraph 2, what does the narrator say she sometimes thinks her mother has no memory of from her youth?
(a) Double somersaults and heart-stopping catches.
(b) School dances and young love.
(c) Devouring books and writing poetry.
(d) Cramming for tests and getting good grades.

Short Answer Questions

1. What did the ringmaster do to introduce the Flying Avalons on the day of the disaster?

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

3. Where does the narrator and her mother live?

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

5. What stands "cast in concrete" (para. 3) to commemorate the accident?

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