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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Paragraphs 9 - 15 .

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What did Anna's second husband teach her to do while in hospital?
(a) Play chess.
(b) Read.
(c) Speak Spanish.
(d) Walk again.

2. Where does the narrator say the tabloids carried the story of their town's disaster?
(a) Boston and L.A.
(b) Cincinatti and New York.
(c) Chicago and L.A.
(d) Boston and New York.

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

4. Where did the narrator sometimes go when she was a child "just to sit" (para. 11)?
(a) Her school playground.
(b) A nearby brook.
(c) Her grandmother's garden.
(d) Her sister's grave.

5. How did Anna's hands get burned during the disaster?
(a) She grabbed onto a metal wire that was hot from the lighting.
(b) She grabbed onto the tent just as it went up in flames.
(c) Her handle bars were struck by lightning.
(d) Her blind fold was on fire when she removed it.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the narrator suggest may have been Harold's final thought as he fell into the crowd on the day of the disaster?

2. 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)?

3. What would Harold show the audience members during part of their act?

4. Where had the narrator's mother taught her to dive off a board?

5. What happened during Harold and Anna's act just before they were able to clasp hands in midair?

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