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

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

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

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

5. Where had the narrator's father "spent his war" as explained in paragraph 13?
(a) At an air force training grounds.
(b) In Canada.
(c) At university.
(d) In combat.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. How did the fire get put out on the day of the disaster?

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

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

5. Where is Anna's first child buried?

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 the narrator think of her sister when she was young and why?

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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