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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) She fell from her swing and broke her leg.
(b) A rescuer broke her arm trying to help her.
(c) The tent toppled her and she got a concussion
(d) She burned her hands trying to grab onto something.

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

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

4. Who is said to have taken Anna in as a child and trained her to perform?
(a) The Avalons.
(b) Her aunt.
(c) The ringleader.
(d) Her neighbors.

5. Where had the narrator's father "spent his war" as explained in paragraph 13?
(a) In Canada.
(b) In combat.
(c) At an air force training grounds.
(d) At university.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. How does the narrator say she often thought of her sister when she was young?

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

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

5. Who took care of Harold's body after he died?

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

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

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

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

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

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

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