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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 is the first thing Anna asks her husband to do the night of the house fire?
(a) Unzip her dress.
(b) Call the police.
(c) Help put out the fire.
(d) Go in the house and save their daughter.

2. 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 panics and cannot breath.
(b) She knows her mother must be cooking something special.
(c) She scurries to make sure her mother is okay.
(d) The stitches burn beneath her fingers.

3. How does the narrator say she often thought of her sister when she was young?
(a) As a ghost.
(b) As a better version of herself.
(c) As a separate person.
(d) As an unfinished version of herself.

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) A surprise that he did not have Anna's hands in his.
(c) I don't want to die.
(d) I'm going to sue the tent company.

5. What are some things the narrator says her mother has not kept from her youth?
(a) Essays or awards.
(b) Sequined costumes or posters.
(c) Old clothes and old friends.
(d) Journals or news clippings.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What is the second thing the narrator says she owes her existence to?

3. What is the narrator's father's occupation?

4. What month did the house fire occur?

5. Where does the narrator say she used to live in paragraph 4?

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