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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 scared she was each time she performed.
(b) How many things you can do when falling.
(c) How many things a mother can do.
(d) How much money a trapeze artist makes.

2. What is the second thing Anna did the day of the disaster when she did not feel her husband's hands?
(a) She grasped his ankle.
(b) She yelled for help.
(c) She tore off her blindfold.
(d) She changed direction.

3. What condition does the narrator's mother have as explained in paragraph 1?
(a) She has dementia.
(b) She is deaf.
(c) She is paralyzed.
(d) She is blind.

4. What was the narrator's mother's former career as stated in the first sentence?
(a) Fire breather.
(b) Trapeze artist.
(c) Ballerina.
(d) Ringleader.

5. What are some places the narrator says her mother had been and her father "longed to visit" (para. 13)?
(a) Venice, Rome, Mexico, France, and Spain.
(b) Egypt, Hawaii, Moscow and Berlin.
(c) Africa, Australia, China, and Japan.
(d) Portugal, Morocco, London, and Thailand.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What is the name of the narrator's mother's act?

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)?

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

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

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