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

2. What does the narrator say audience members ate while waiting for the act to begin?
(a) Hamburgers and French fries.
(b) Hot dogs and chips.
(c) Ice cream and candy.
(d) Popcorn and peanuts.

3. What did Harold and Anna do in midair during their act according to paragraph 5?
(a) Embrace.
(b) Tell a joke.
(c) Kiss.
(d) Change costumes.

4. Where did the narrator's mother and father meet?
(a) At the circus.
(b) At the town pool.
(c) In the hospital.
(d) At the library.

5. What did the narrator's mother once tell her one would be amazed by?
(a) How much money a trapeze artist makes.
(b) How scared she was each time she performed.
(c) How many things a mother can do.
(d) How many things you can do when falling.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What weather condition resulted in the disaster Anna and her husband experienced during their act?

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

4. How many times does the narrator say she owes her existence to her mother?

5. What are some things the narrator says her mother has not kept from her youth?

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