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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 are some places the narrator says her mother had been and her father "longed to visit" (para. 13)?
(a) Egypt, Hawaii, Moscow and Berlin.
(b) Venice, Rome, Mexico, France, and Spain.
(c) Portugal, Morocco, London, and Thailand.
(d) Africa, Australia, China, and Japan.

2. What happened to Anna's baby after the disaster?
(a) She was born premature.
(b) It was stillborn.
(c) She miscarried.
(d) He was born and Anna named him Harold.

3. Where was Harold Avalon buried?
(a) In the cemetery near their house.
(b) In the family plot in the backyard.
(c) He was cremated.
(d) In the circus cemetery.

4. Where is Anna's first child buried?
(a) In a cemetery near their house in New Hampshire.
(b) In the circus cemetery.
(c) In the backyard plot.
(d) She was cremated.

5. What does the narrator say is the greatest difficulty of her mother's blindness in paragraph 15?
(a) Not being able to read.
(b) Not being able to look at old photographs.
(c) Not being able to clean her own house.
(d) Not being able to see her grandchildren.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What word does the narrator use to describe her mother's time in the hospital?

3. Where did Anna live after touring Europe when she was young?

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

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. What was Anna's history with the Avalons?

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

3. 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?

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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