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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Paragraphs 9 - 15 .

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Where had the narrator's mother taught her to dive off a board?
(a) The town pool.
(b) The YMCA.
(c) Their backyard pool.
(d) Her cousin's pool.

2. 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 scared she was each time she performed.
(d) How many things a mother can do.

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

4. Where is Anna's first child buried?
(a) In a cemetery near their house in New Hampshire.
(b) She was cremated.
(c) In the backyard plot.
(d) In the circus cemetery.

5. Where was Harold Avalon buried?
(a) In the cemetery near their house.
(b) In the family plot in the backyard.
(c) He was cremated.
(d) In the circus cemetery.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What was the narrator's mother's former career as stated in the first sentence?

3. What does the narrator say audience members ate while waiting for the act to begin?

4. Where does the narrator say the tabloids carried the story of their town's disaster?

5. What happened during Harold and Anna's act just before they were able to clasp hands in midair?

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