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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 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.

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

3. How many people died during the disaster?
(a) 18.
(b) 1.
(c) 60.
(d) 3.

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 miscarried.
(b) She hemmorhaged.
(c) She lost her vision.
(d) She found out her husband died.

5. What is the first thing Anna did the day of the disaster when she did not feel her husband's hands?
(a) She tore off her blindfold.
(b) She screamed for help.
(c) She lost control and fell.
(d) She grasped his ankle.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. How did Anna's hands get burned during the disaster?

3. Where did the narrator sometimes go when she was a child "just to sit" (para. 11)?

4. How did Anna get severely injured during the disaster?

5. Where had the narrator's mother taught her to dive off a board?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

10. 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?

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