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

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

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Where had the narrator's father "spent his war" as explained in paragraph 13?

2. Why is the narrator easily able to pick her sister's gravestone from afar?

3. Where is Anna's first child buried?

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

5. What is the first thing Anna did the day of the disaster when she did not feel her husband's hands?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

6. 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?

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

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

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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