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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 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 miscarried.
(c) She lost her vision.
(d) She hemmorhaged.

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

3. 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 screamed for help.
(c) She grasped his ankle.
(d) She tore off her blindfold.

4. 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) Egypt, Hawaii, Moscow and Berlin.
(c) Portugal, Morocco, London, and Thailand.
(d) Africa, Australia, China, and Japan.

5. What did the narrator's mother once tell her one would be amazed by?
(a) How many things you can do when falling.
(b) How many things a mother can do.
(c) How much money a trapeze artist makes.
(d) How scared she was each time she performed.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Where was Harold Avalon buried?

3. In paragraph 15, why does the narrator say she came to stay with her mother after her father's death?

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

5. Near what family member was Harold buried?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

8. 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?

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

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

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