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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 did Anna's second husband teach her to do while in hospital?
(a) Read.
(b) Play chess.
(c) Walk again.
(d) Speak Spanish.

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

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

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

5. How does the narrator say she often thought of her sister when she was young?
(a) As an unfinished version of herself.
(b) As a better version of herself.
(c) As a separate person.
(d) As a ghost.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What does the narrator say seems to happen to her sister's grave as the years progress?

3. What is the narrator's father's occupation?

4. Who is said to have taken Anna in as a child and trained her to perform?

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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