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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 did the narrator's mother once tell her one would be amazed by?
(a) How many things a mother can do.
(b) How many things you can do when falling.
(c) How scared she was each time she performed.
(d) How much money a trapeze artist makes.

2. According to paragraph 4, during what month did Anna experience her disaster?
(a) February.
(b) September.
(c) June.
(d) November.

3. What metaphor is used in paragraph 5 to describe the way Anna and Harold would drop through the air during their act?
(a) Like two peas in a pod.
(b) Like two doves in love.
(c) Like dragonflies in the night.
(d) Like two sparkling birds.

4. What does the narrator suggest may have been Harold's final thought as he fell into the crowd on the day of the disaster?
(a) Anna is with child.
(b) I'm going to sue the tent company.
(c) I don't want to die.
(d) A surprise that he did not have Anna's hands in his.

5. Where did the narrator's mother and father meet?
(a) At the circus.
(b) In the hospital.
(c) At the library.
(d) At the town pool.

Short Answer Questions

1. After reading paragraph 1, what do readers learn about the narrator's mother's former partner?

2. What does the narrator sometimes do in her childhood room?

3. 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)?

4. What phrase is used to describe the narrator's mother's movements in paragraph 2?

5. Where had the narrator's mother taught her to dive off a board?

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