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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. 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 handle bars were struck by lightning.
(c) Her blind fold was on fire when she removed it.
(d) She grabbed onto a metal wire that was hot from the lighting.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. How does the narrator say she often thought of her sister when she was young?

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

3. What is the second thing Anna did the day of the disaster when she did not feel her husband's hands?

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

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

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