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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 is the narrator's father's occupation?
(a) Doctor.
(b) Trapeze artist.
(c) Teacher.
(d) Lawyer.
2. What type of weather does the narrator describe in paragraph 12 when discussing her sister's grave?
(a) Snow.
(b) Sunshine.
(c) Rain.
(d) Humidity.
3. Where did the narrator's mother and father meet?
(a) At the town pool.
(b) At the library.
(c) In the hospital.
(d) At the circus.
4. Why is the narrator easily able to pick her sister's gravestone from afar?
(a) It is shaped like a trapeze swinger.
(b) It is shaped like a heart.
(c) It is shaped like a lamb at rest.
(d) It is shaped like a baby girl.
5. What did Anna's second husband buy her when she was in the hospital, which she had never had before?
(a) A hat.
(b) A new dress.
(c) A diamond ring.
(d) A book.
Short Answer Questions
1. Who is said to have taken Anna in as a child and trained her to perform?
2. What does the narrator say is the greatest difficulty of her mother's blindness in paragraph 15?
3. How does the narrator say she often thought of her sister when she was young?
4. Where was Harold Avalon buried?
5. Where had the narrator's father "spent his war" as explained in paragraph 13?
Short Essay Questions
1. How did the narrator think of her sister when she was young and why?
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. Describe the narrator's sister's gravestone.
5. What was Anna's history with the Avalons?
6. How did Anna and the narrator's father meet? What had he done prior to this meeting?
7. Why does the narrator return to her childhood home to live with her mother after her father passes?
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. What quick actions did Anna muster in the first moment of the disaster during her performance?
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