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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. After reading paragraph 1, what do readers learn about the narrator's mother's former partner?
(a) They had a falling out.
(b) He was unkind.
(c) He has died.
(d) He lives with them.

2. What is the narrator's mother's name?
(a) Agnes.
(b) Abbeth.
(c) Anna.
(d) Alice.

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

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) The stitches burn beneath her fingers.
(b) She scurries to make sure her mother is okay.
(c) She knows her mother must be cooking something special.
(d) She panics and cannot breath.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. What does the narrator sometimes do in her childhood room?

4. Where does the narrator say the tabloids carried the story of their town's disaster?

5. What did Harold and Anna do in midair during their act according to paragraph 5?

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