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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. Where did the narrator sometimes go when she was a child "just to sit" (para. 11)?
(a) Her school playground.
(b) A nearby brook.
(c) Her sister's grave.
(d) Her grandmother's garden.

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

3. 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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

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

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

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

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

5. What did Anna's second husband teach her to do while in hospital?

Short Essay Questions

1. What did the narrator's mother once tell her she would be amazed by? Where does the narrator think she may have told her this and why?

2. How did Anna and the narrator's father meet? What had he done prior to this meeting?

3. Where was Harold buried? Where was Anna and Harold's child buried?

4. What injuries did Anna suffer on the day of the disaster? What happened when she was in the hospital?

5. How did the narrator think of her sister when she was young and why?

6. What was Anna's history with the Avalons?

7. Why does the narrator return to her childhood home to live with her mother after her father passes?

8. What quick actions did Anna muster in the first moment of the disaster during her performance?

9. What did the narrator's father teach Anna? What did she do for him in exchange?

10. Describe the narrator's sister's gravestone.

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