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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who was at the scene when Anna and her husband arrived the night of the house fire?
(a) Town volunteers.
(b) Police officers.
(c) The babysitter's parents.
(d) The fire department.

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

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

4. What did the narrator realize once her mother was in her bedroom on the night of the fire?
(a) There was no way they could get out.
(b) Her mother was drunk.
(c) She had on only underclothes.
(d) The smoke had subsided.

5. What detail about Anna does the narrator note was not mentioned in the newspaper accounts of the disaster?
(a) She was pregnant.
(b) She was Harold's wife.
(c) She was badly injured.
(d) She was blind.

Short Answer Questions

1. What sound does the narrator believe woke her up during the fire?

2. Who is said to have taken Anna in as a child and trained her to perform?

3. What was the suspected cause of the house fire?

4. Where did the narrator sometimes go when she was a child "just to sit" (para. 11)?

5. What is the narrator's mother's name?

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