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

2. Near what family member was Harold buried?
(a) His nephew.
(b) His father.
(c) His grandfather.
(d) His uncle.

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

4. Why is the narrator easily able to pick her sister's gravestone from afar?
(a) It is shaped like a lamb at rest.
(b) It is shaped like a trapeze swinger.
(c) It is shaped like a heart.
(d) It is shaped like a baby girl.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Where was Harold Avalon buried?

2. What does the narrator think must have happened to her mother after she was taken to the hospital the day of the disaster?

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

4. Where did the narrator's mother and father meet?

5. In paragraph 15, why does the narrator say she came to stay with her mother after her father's death?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. 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?

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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