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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How many times does the narrator say she owes her existence to her mother?
(a) 2.
(b) Dozens.
(c) 9.
(d) 3.

2. How is Anna's heartbeat described as the narrator heard it while they fell through the air on the night of the fire?
(a) Soft and melodic.
(b) Loud as a raging storm.
(c) Fast as lighting, deep as a baritone.
(d) Loud as thunder, long as the roll of drums.

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

4. What does the narrator say is the greatest difficulty of her mother's blindness in paragraph 15?
(a) Not being able to read.
(b) Not being able to clean her own house.
(c) Not being able to look at old photographs.
(d) Not being able to see her grandchildren.

5. What did the narrator think as her and her mother fell through the air on the night of the fire?
(a) She wondered how her mother got to her room.
(b) She wondered how the fire started.
(c) She wondered what would happen if they missed the net.
(d) She wondered where the babysitter went.

Short Answer Questions

1. What happened to Anna's baby after the disaster?

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

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

4. How does the narrator say she often thought of her sister when she was young?

5. What did Anna's second husband teach her to do while in hospital?

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