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

2. 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 heart.
(c) It is shaped like a lamb at rest.
(d) It is shaped like a trapeze swinger.

3. Where did the narrator's mother and father meet?
(a) At the library.
(b) At the circus.
(c) In the hospital.
(d) At the town pool.

4. What does the narrator say seems to happen to her sister's grave as the years progress?
(a) It gets smaller.
(b) It gets closer.
(c) It gets further away.
(d) It gets larger.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What happened to Anna's baby after the disaster?

3. Where is Anna's first child buried?

4. How many people died during the disaster?

5. What did Anna's second husband teach her to do while in hospital?

Short Essay Questions

1. 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?

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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