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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. What type of weather does the narrator describe in paragraph 12 when discussing her sister's grave?
(a) Humidity.
(b) Snow.
(c) Rain.
(d) Sunshine.

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

3. 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.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. How did the fire get put out on the day of the disaster?

3. What does the narrator say seems to happen to her sister's grave as the years progress?

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

5. What is the narrator's father's occupation?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

4. 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?

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

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

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

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

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

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

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