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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 happened to Anna's baby after the disaster?
(a) It was stillborn.
(b) She miscarried.
(c) She was born premature.
(d) He was born and Anna named him Harold.

2. What word does the narrator use to describe her mother's time in the hospital?
(a) Confinement.
(b) Rehabilitation.
(c) Vacation.
(d) Imprisonment.

3. What is the narrator's mother's name?
(a) Alice.
(b) Agnes.
(c) Anna.
(d) Abbeth.

4. What detail about Anna does the narrator note was not mentioned in the newspaper accounts of the disaster?
(a) She was Harold's wife.
(b) She was blind.
(c) She was badly injured.
(d) She was pregnant.

5. Where does the narrator say she used to live in paragraph 4?
(a) The Far East.
(b) The North.
(c) The West.
(d) The South.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What does the narrator say her mother did the first time she owes her existence to her?

3. What condition does the narrator's mother have as explained in paragraph 1?

4. What type of weather does the narrator describe in paragraph 12 when discussing her sister's grave?

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

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