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

2. What type of weather does the narrator describe in paragraph 12 when discussing her sister's grave?
(a) Sunshine.
(b) Humidity.
(c) Rain.
(d) Snow.

3. Where had the narrator's father "spent his war" as explained in paragraph 13?
(a) At university.
(b) In combat.
(c) In Canada.
(d) At an air force training grounds.

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

5. In paragraph 15, why does the narrator say she came to stay with her mother after her father's death?
(a) To clean the house.
(b) To cook for her.
(c) To read to her.
(d) To take her for walks.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What phrase is used to describe the narrator's mother's movements in paragraph 2?

3. Who is said to have taken Anna in as a child and trained her to perform?

4. In paragraph 2, what does the narrator say she sometimes thinks her mother has no memory of from her youth?

5. How did Anna's hands get burned during the disaster?

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