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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.
Multiple Choice Questions
1. How many acts performed before Anna and her husband's act on the day of the disaster?
(a) 12.
(b) 1.
(c) 3.
(d) 7.
2. Where does the narrator say the tabloids carried the story of their town's disaster?
(a) Boston and L.A.
(b) Cincinatti and New York.
(c) Chicago and L.A.
(d) Boston and New York.
3. What did Harold and Anna do in midair during their act according to paragraph 5?
(a) Tell a joke.
(b) Kiss.
(c) Embrace.
(d) Change costumes.
4. After reading paragraph 1, what do readers learn about the narrator's mother's former partner?
(a) He has died.
(b) They had a falling out.
(c) He was unkind.
(d) He lives with them.
5. Where does the narrator say she used to live in paragraph 4?
(a) The South.
(b) The North.
(c) The Far East.
(d) The West.
Short Answer Questions
1. What are some things the narrator says her mother has not kept from her youth?
2. What metaphor is used in paragraph 5 to describe the way Anna and Harold would drop through the air during their act?
3. What did Anna and Harold do "openly" as they performed according to paragraph 5?
4. In paragraph 2, what does the narrator say she sometimes thinks her mother has no memory of from her youth?
5. What stands "cast in concrete" (para. 3) to commemorate the accident?
Short Essay Questions
1. What detail about Anna was not mentioned in the newspaper accounts of the disaster?
2. Describe Anna and Harold's typical trapeze performance.
3. How is the scene at the circus before the disaster described? What was the weather like? What was the audience doing?
4. How does the narrator describe the way her mother moves through their home in New Hampshire in paragraph 1?
5. What type of performer was the narrator's mother? Where does she live and what is her medical condition?
6. Why does the narrator sometimes forget that her mother was part of the Flying Avalons?
7. Why does the narrator find it unsurprising that her mother was able to perform while seven months pregnant?
8. What events followed lightning striking the main tent pole while Harold and Anna were performing?
9. Why does the narrator say people in the East are at a disadvantage regarding weather changes than those in the West, where she used to live?
10. What stands in the center of town as a reminder of the disaster? Where does the narrator find out about the events that day?
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