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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Where did the narrator's mother and father meet?
(a) At the library.
(b) At the circus.
(c) At the town pool.
(d) In the hospital.

2. In paragraph 15, why does the narrator say she came to stay with her mother after her father's death?
(a) To cook for her.
(b) To clean the house.
(c) To take her for walks.
(d) To read to her.

3. What did the narrator's mother know as soon as she came upon the house during the fire?
(a) The fire was her fault.
(b) There was no way to rescue her daughter.
(c) The baby-sitter started the fire.
(d) Her daughter was dead.

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

5. What did the narrator's mother once tell her one would be amazed by?
(a) How much money a trapeze artist makes.
(b) How scared she was each time she performed.
(c) How many things you can do when falling.
(d) How many things a mother can do.

Short Answer Questions

1. In paragraph 3, where does the narrator say she gets her information about her mother's disaster?

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

3. According to paragraph 4, during what month did Anna experience her disaster?

4. 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)?

5. What weather condition resulted in the disaster Anna and her husband experienced during their act?

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