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

2. What word does the narrator use to describe her mother's time in the hospital?
(a) Vacation.
(b) Rehabilitation.
(c) Confinement.
(d) Imprisonment.

3. How many times does the narrator say she owes her existence to her mother?
(a) 9.
(b) Dozens.
(c) 3.
(d) 2.

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

5. Why is the narrator easily able to pick her sister's gravestone from afar?
(a) It is shaped like a baby girl.
(b) It is shaped like a heart.
(c) It is shaped like a trapeze swinger.
(d) It is shaped like a lamb at rest.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What metaphor is used in paragraph 5 to describe the way Anna and Harold would drop through the air during their act?

3. Where does the narrator say she used to live in paragraph 4?

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

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