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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How many acts performed before Anna and her husband's act on the day of the disaster?
(a) 3.
(b) 12.
(c) 1.
(d) 7.

2. How did Anna get severely injured during the disaster?
(a) She fell from her swing and broke her leg.
(b) She burned her hands trying to grab onto something.
(c) A rescuer broke her arm trying to help her.
(d) The tent toppled her and she got a concussion

3. 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)?
(a) She scurries to make sure her mother is okay.
(b) She knows her mother must be cooking something special.
(c) She panics and cannot breath.
(d) The stitches burn beneath her fingers.

4. After reading paragraph 1, what do readers learn about the narrator's mother's former partner?
(a) They had a falling out.
(b) He lives with them.
(c) He has died.
(d) He was unkind.

5. What phrase is used to describe the narrator's mother's movements in paragraph 2?
(a) Catlike precision.
(b) Like a bull in a china shop.
(c) Stealthlike manner.
(d) Graceless fumbling.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where had the narrator's father "spent his war" as explained in paragraph 13?

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

3. What did the narrator's mother once tell her one would be amazed by?

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

5. What is the narrator's mother's name?

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