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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Paragraphs 9 - 15 .

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is something the narrator says happens when she is in her room and gets a "whiff of smoke from the stove downstairs" (para.2)?
(a) She knows her mother must be cooking something special.
(b) The stitches burn beneath her fingers.
(c) She panics and cannot breath.
(d) She scurries to make sure her mother is okay.

2. After reading paragraph 1, what do readers learn about the narrator's mother's former partner?
(a) They had a falling out.
(b) He was unkind.
(c) He lives with them.
(d) He has died.

3. How many times does the narrator say she owes her existence to her mother?
(a) Dozens.
(b) 3.
(c) 2.
(d) 9.

4. What is the name of the narrator's mother's act?
(a) The Floating Avatars.
(b) The Fluttering Angels.
(c) The Fledgling Abyssinians.
(d) The Flying Avalons.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Where did the narrator's mother and father meet?

2. What stands "cast in concrete" (para. 3) to commemorate the accident?

3. How many people died during the disaster?

4. In paragraph 15, why does the narrator say she came to stay with her mother after her father's death?

5. What metaphor is used in paragraph 5 to describe the way Anna and Harold would drop through the air during their act?

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