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

2. What type of weather does the narrator describe in paragraph 12 when discussing her sister's grave?
(a) Sunshine.
(b) Humidity.
(c) Snow.
(d) Rain.

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. How many people died during the disaster?

2. Near what family member was Harold buried?

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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