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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 detail about Anna does the narrator note was not mentioned in the newspaper accounts of the disaster?
(a) She was pregnant.
(b) She was Harold's wife.
(c) She was badly injured.
(d) She was blind.

2. How many people died during the disaster?
(a) 1.
(b) 18.
(c) 3.
(d) 60.

3. In paragraph 15, why does the narrator say she came to stay with her mother after her father's death?
(a) To cook for her.
(b) To clean the house.
(c) To take her for walks.
(d) To read to her.

4. Why did Anna and her second husband move to an old farmhouse after they married?
(a) They had both always dreamed of sign in an old farmhouse.
(b) He had inherited it.
(c) Anna's first husband built it.
(d) Anna had inherited it.

5. Where in the house did the fire start?
(a) In the attic.
(b) Near the stove.
(c) In the den.
(d) In the narrator's room.

Short Answer Questions

1. Near what family member was Harold buried?

2. How did Anna and her daughter escape the house fire?

3. What does the narrator say her mother did the first time she owes her existence to her?

4. What sound does the narrator believe woke her up during the fire?

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

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