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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. 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) Venice, Rome, Mexico, France, and Spain.
(c) Africa, Australia, China, and Japan.
(d) Portugal, Morocco, London, and Thailand.

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

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

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

7. What happened to Anna's baby after the disaster?
(a) She was born premature.
(b) She miscarried.
(c) It was stillborn.
(d) He was born and Anna named him Harold.

8. 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 larger.
(d) It gets smaller.

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

10. 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.

11. How did the fire get put out on the day of the disaster?
(a) By rain and men's jackets.
(b) Locals volunteers threw buckets of water on it.
(c) The ringleader and other performers used a fire extinguisher.
(d) The fire department.

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

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

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

15. How did Anna get severely injured during the disaster?
(a) She burned her hands trying to grab onto something.
(b) A rescuer broke her arm trying to help her.
(c) She fell from her swing and broke her leg.
(d) The tent toppled her and she got a concussion

Short Answer Questions

1. Where was Harold Avalon buried?

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

3. Who took care of Harold's body after he died?

4. In paragraph 15, why does the narrator say she came to stay with her mother after her father's death?

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

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