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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) 3.
(d) 60.

2. What did Harold and Anna use for part of their act?
(a) Blindfolds.
(b) Colorful scarves.
(c) Strobe lights.
(d) Puppies.

3. What is the name of the narrator's mother's act?
(a) The Floating Avatars.
(b) The Fledgling Abyssinians.
(c) The Flying Avalons.
(d) The Fluttering Angels.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What did the ringmaster do to introduce the Flying Avalons on the day of the disaster?

3. What did Anna's second husband buy her when she was in the hospital, which she had never had before?

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

5. What does the narrator say is the greatest difficulty of her mother's blindness in paragraph 15?

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