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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 are some things the narrator says her mother has not kept from her youth?
(a) Essays or awards.
(b) Journals or news clippings.
(c) Old clothes and old friends.
(d) Sequined costumes or posters.

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

3. What did Anna and Harold do "openly" as they performed according to paragraph 5?
(a) Sing and dance.
(b) Laugh and flirt.
(c) Fumble and fall.
(d) Yell and argue.

4. What did Anna's second husband teach her to do while in hospital?
(a) Read.
(b) Walk again.
(c) Speak Spanish.
(d) Play chess.

5. Who was the other half of her mother's act?
(a) Herman Adams.
(b) Harold Avalon.
(c) Henry Allen.
(d) Hank Allendale.

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. What is the narrator's father's occupation?

4. What does the narrator say seems to happen to her sister's grave as the years progress?

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

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