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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) She grabbed onto the tent just as it went up in flames.
(b) Her blind fold was on fire when she removed it.
(c) Her handle bars were struck by lightning.
(d) She grabbed onto a metal wire that was hot from the lighting.

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

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

4. In paragraph 15, why does the narrator say she came to stay with her mother after her father's death?
(a) To take her for walks.
(b) To cook for her.
(c) To clean the house.
(d) To read to her.

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

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

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

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

9. 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) The tent toppled her and she got a concussion
(d) She fell from her swing and broke her leg.

10. What is the first thing Anna did the day of the disaster when she did not feel her husband's hands?
(a) She lost control and fell.
(b) She tore off her blindfold.
(c) She grasped his ankle.
(d) She screamed for help.

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

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

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

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

15. 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 lamb at rest.
(c) It is shaped like a trapeze swinger.
(d) It is shaped like a heart.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What did the narrator's mother once tell her one would be amazed by?

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

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

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

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