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

2. Where does the narrator and her mother live?
(a) Maine.
(b) New Hampshire.
(c) Rhode Island.
(d) Vermont.

3. What weather condition resulted in the disaster Anna and her husband experienced during their act?
(a) A tsunami.
(b) A blizzard.
(c) A gale.
(d) A tornado.

4. How did the fire get put out on the day of the disaster?
(a) Locals volunteers threw buckets of water on it.
(b) By rain and men's jackets.
(c) The ringleader and other performers used a fire extinguisher.
(d) The fire department.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Where did the narrator sometimes go when she was a child "just to sit" (para. 11)?

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

3. What did Anna and Harold do "openly" as they performed according to paragraph 5?

4. What does the narrator suggest may have been Harold's final thought as he fell into the crowd on the day of the disaster?

5. What did Anna's second husband teach her to do while in hospital?

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