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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Paragraphs 1 - 8 .

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What phrase is used to describe the narrator's mother's movements in paragraph 2?
(a) Graceless fumbling.
(b) Catlike precision.
(c) Like a bull in a china shop.
(d) Stealthlike manner.

2. How many acts performed before Anna and her husband's act on the day of the disaster?
(a) 7.
(b) 1.
(c) 3.
(d) 12.

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

4. What did Harold and Anna use for part of their act?
(a) Blindfolds.
(b) Puppies.
(c) Strobe lights.
(d) Colorful scarves.

5. What does the narrator point out in paragraph one about how her mother moves through the house?
(a) She never bumps into anything or knocks anything over.
(b) She barely moves so as not to disturb anything.
(c) She acts as though her daughter is not there.
(d) She is quite clumsy.

Short Answer Questions

1. What did Anna and Harold do "openly" as they performed according to paragraph 5?

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

3. What are some things the narrator says her mother has not kept from her youth?

4. In paragraph 3, where does the narrator say she gets her information about her mother's disaster?

5. What detail about Anna does the narrator note was not mentioned in the newspaper accounts of the disaster?

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