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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. 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 many things a mother can do.
(c) How many things you can do when falling.
(d) How much money a trapeze artist makes.

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 look at old photographs.
(c) Not being able to clean her own house.
(d) Not being able to see her grandchildren.

5. Near what family member was Harold buried?
(a) His father.
(b) His nephew.
(c) His uncle.
(d) His grandfather.

6. How many people died during the disaster?
(a) 60.
(b) 3.
(c) 18.
(d) 1.

7. What is the second thing Anna did the day of the disaster when she did not feel her husband's hands?
(a) She tore off her blindfold.
(b) She grasped his ankle.
(c) She changed direction.
(d) She yelled for help.

8. Where did the narrator sometimes go when she was a child "just to sit" (para. 11)?
(a) Her grandmother's garden.
(b) Her school playground.
(c) A nearby brook.
(d) Her sister's grave.

9. Who took care of Harold's body after he died?
(a) His uncle.
(b) His brothers.
(c) Harold's parents.
(d) Anna.

10. 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 take her for walks.
(c) To clean the house.
(d) To read to her.

11. Where had the narrator's father "spent his war" as explained in paragraph 13?
(a) In Canada.
(b) In combat.
(c) At an air force training grounds.
(d) At university.

12. What did Anna's second husband teach her to do while in hospital?
(a) Play chess.
(b) Walk again.
(c) Speak Spanish.
(d) Read.

13. Where was Harold Avalon buried?
(a) In the cemetery near their house.
(b) He was cremated.
(c) In the circus cemetery.
(d) In the family plot in the backyard.

14. How did Anna's hands get burned during the disaster?
(a) She grabbed onto the tent just as it went up in flames.
(b) She grabbed onto a metal wire that was hot from the lighting.
(c) Her blind fold was on fire when she removed it.
(d) Her handle bars were struck by lightning.

15. Who is said to have taken Anna in as a child and trained her to perform?
(a) The ringleader.
(b) Her neighbors.
(c) Her aunt.
(d) The Avalons.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where is Anna's first child buried?

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

3. Why is the narrator easily able to pick her sister's gravestone from afar?

4. Where did Anna live after touring Europe when she was young?

5. What does the narrator say seems to happen to her sister's grave as the years progress?

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