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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 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.

2. Where had the narrator's mother taught her to dive off a board?
(a) The town pool.
(b) Their backyard pool.
(c) Her cousin's pool.
(d) The YMCA.

3. Where does the narrator and her mother live?
(a) New Hampshire.
(b) Maine.
(c) Rhode Island.
(d) Vermont.

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

5. What does the narrator point out in paragraph one about how her mother moves through the house?
(a) She barely moves so as not to disturb anything.
(b) She is quite clumsy.
(c) She never bumps into anything or knocks anything over.
(d) She acts as though her daughter is not there.

Short Answer Questions

1. How did the fire get put out on the day of the disaster?

2. What did Anna's second husband buy her when she was in the hospital, which she had never had before?

3. How many acts performed before Anna and her husband's act on the day of the disaster?

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

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

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