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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Paragraphs 16 - 25 .

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What condition does the narrator's mother have as explained in paragraph 1?
(a) She is paralyzed.
(b) She is blind.
(c) She has dementia.
(d) She is deaf.

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

3. What is the narrator's mother's name?
(a) Anna.
(b) Agnes.
(c) Abbeth.
(d) Alice.

4. What was the narrator's mother's former career as stated in the first sentence?
(a) Fire breather.
(b) Trapeze artist.
(c) Ringleader.
(d) Ballerina.

5. What stands "cast in concrete" (para. 3) to commemorate the accident?
(a) A feather boa.
(b) A replica tent pole.
(c) A sequined costume.
(d) A statue of trapeze artists.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is one reason the narrator finds it odd her parents chose to live in the old farmhouse?

2. What is the first thing Anna asks her husband to do the night of the house fire?

3. What was Anna doing when she landed on the gutter of the house near her daughter's window?

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

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

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