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

2. Where is Anna's first child buried?
(a) In the backyard plot.
(b) In a cemetery near their house in New Hampshire.
(c) In the circus cemetery.
(d) She was cremated.

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

4. What did Anna's second husband buy her when she was in the hospital, which she had never had before?
(a) A book.
(b) A hat.
(c) A new dress.
(d) A diamond ring.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What did the narrator's mother once tell her one would be amazed by?

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

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

4. How many people died during the disaster?

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

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

3. 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?

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

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

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

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

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

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