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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Paragraphs 16 - 25 .

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does the narrator say her mother did the first time she owes her existence to her?
(a) She saved herself.
(b) She saved her daughter's life.
(c) She was born.
(d) She met her first husband.

2. What sound does the narrator believe woke her up during the fire?
(a) The fire sirens.
(b) The telephone ringing.
(c) The ladder breaking.
(d) Her mother screaming.

3. What type of weather does the narrator describe in paragraph 12 when discussing her sister's grave?
(a) Sunshine.
(b) Snow.
(c) Humidity.
(d) Rain.

4. What creature does the narrator say would have had trouble jumping from the thin tree branch to the house on the night of the fire?
(a) A mouse.
(b) A cat.
(c) A bird.
(d) A squirrel.

5. 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.

Short Answer Questions

1. What did the narrator realize once her mother was in her bedroom on the night of the fire?

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

3. How is Anna's heartbeat described as the narrator heard it while they fell through the air on the night of the fire?

4. What word does the narrator use to describe her mother's time in the hospital?

5. What does the narrator say we hang onto dearly once we have it?

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