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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In paragraph 3, where does the narrator say she gets her information about her mother's disaster?
(a) Old newspapers.
(b) Her father.
(c) Her mother.
(d) Her in-laws.

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

3. Where does the narrator say the tabloids carried the story of their town's disaster?
(a) Cincinatti and New York.
(b) Boston and New York.
(c) Chicago and L.A.
(d) Boston and L.A.

4. What is the first thing Anna asks her husband to do the night of the house fire?
(a) Unzip her dress.
(b) Go in the house and save their daughter.
(c) Call the police.
(d) Help put out the fire.

5. What was the narrator's mother's former career as stated in the first sentence?
(a) Fire breather.
(b) Ringleader.
(c) Ballerina.
(d) Trapeze artist.

Short Answer Questions

1. In paragraph 2, what does the narrator say she sometimes thinks her mother has no memory of from her youth?

2. What are some places the narrator says her mother had been and her father "longed to visit" (para. 13)?

3. In paragraph 18, the narrator says her father was "perpetually exhausted" from what?

4. What month did the house fire occur?

5. What does the narrator point out in paragraph one about how her mother moves through the house?

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