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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 miscarried.
(b) She found out her husband died.
(c) She hemmorhaged.
(d) She lost her vision.

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

3. How did Anna's hands get burned during the disaster?
(a) Her blind fold was on fire when she removed it.
(b) She grabbed onto the tent just as it went up in flames.
(c) She grabbed onto a metal wire that was hot from the lighting.
(d) Her handle bars were struck by lightning.

4. In paragraph 15, why does the narrator say she came to stay with her mother after her father's death?
(a) To read to her.
(b) To clean the house.
(c) To cook for her.
(d) To take her for walks.

5. What word does the narrator use to describe her mother's time in the hospital?
(a) Vacation.
(b) Confinement.
(c) Imprisonment.
(d) Rehabilitation.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where did the narrator's mother and father meet?

2. Where was Harold Avalon buried?

3. Where did the narrator sometimes go when she was a child "just to sit" (para. 11)?

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

5. What are some places the narrator says her mother had been and her father "longed to visit" (para. 13)?

Short Essay Questions

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

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 was Anna's history with the Avalons?

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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