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

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

3. What did Anna's second husband teach her to do while in hospital?
(a) Speak Spanish.
(b) Read.
(c) Play chess.
(d) Walk again.

4. What does the narrator think must have happened to her mother after she was taken to the hospital the day of the disaster?
(a) She found out her husband died.
(b) She lost her vision.
(c) She miscarried.
(d) She hemmorhaged.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What type of weather does the narrator describe in paragraph 12 when discussing her sister's grave?

3. What did Anna's second husband buy her when she was in the hospital, which she had never had before?

4. Near what family member was Harold buried?

5. How many people died during the disaster?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

5. 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?

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

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

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

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

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

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