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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Where did Anna live after touring Europe when she was young?
(a) Paris.
(b) Los Angeles.
(c) New Hampshire.
(d) New York.

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

3. 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 yelled for help.
(c) She grasped his ankle.
(d) She changed direction.

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

5. Where had the narrator's mother taught her to dive off a board?
(a) The YMCA.
(b) The town pool.
(c) Their backyard pool.
(d) Her cousin's pool.

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

7. How does the narrator say she often thought of her sister when she was young?
(a) As a ghost.
(b) As a better version of herself.
(c) As an unfinished version of herself.
(d) As a separate person.

8. What is the narrator's father's occupation?
(a) Teacher.
(b) Doctor.
(c) Lawyer.
(d) Trapeze artist.

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

10. What does the narrator say seems to happen to her sister's grave as the years progress?
(a) It gets closer.
(b) It gets further away.
(c) It gets smaller.
(d) It gets larger.

11. Why is the narrator easily able to pick her sister's gravestone from afar?
(a) It is shaped like a baby girl.
(b) It is shaped like a heart.
(c) It is shaped like a trapeze swinger.
(d) It is shaped like a lamb at rest.

12. What does the narrator think must have happened to her mother after she was taken to the hospital the day of the disaster?
(a) She miscarried.
(b) She lost her vision.
(c) She hemmorhaged.
(d) She found out her husband died.

13. What are some places the narrator says her mother had been and her father "longed to visit" (para. 13)?
(a) Egypt, Hawaii, Moscow and Berlin.
(b) Africa, Australia, China, and Japan.
(c) Portugal, Morocco, London, and Thailand.
(d) Venice, Rome, Mexico, France, and Spain.

14. Where is Anna's first child buried?
(a) In the circus cemetery.
(b) She was cremated.
(c) In the backyard plot.
(d) In a cemetery near their house in New Hampshire.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. How did Anna's hands get burned during the disaster?

2. What type of weather does the narrator describe in paragraph 12 when discussing her sister's grave?

3. What did Anna's second husband buy her when she was in the hospital, which she had never had before?

4. How did Anna get severely injured during the disaster?

5. What does the narrator say is the greatest difficulty of her mother's blindness in paragraph 15?

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