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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 people died during the disaster?
(a) 18.
(b) 1.
(c) 60.
(d) 3.

2. In paragraph 6, what does the narrator say her mother is able to live comfortably in?
(a) Extreme elements.
(b) Their farmhouse.
(c) The spotlight.
(d) Extreme poverty.

3. What is the narrator's father's occupation?
(a) Teacher.
(b) Lawyer.
(c) Doctor.
(d) Trapeze artist.

4. What does the narrator sometimes do in her childhood room?
(a) She reads.
(b) She talks on the phone.
(c) She sews.
(d) She paints.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Where had the narrator's mother taught her to dive off a board?

3. What is the first thing Anna did the day of the disaster when she did not feel her husband's hands?

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

5. What did Harold and Anna use for part of their act?

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