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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Where did Anna live after touring Europe when she was young?
(a) Paris.
(b) Los Angeles.
(c) New York.
(d) New Hampshire.

2. Where had the narrator's father "spent his war" as explained in paragraph 13?
(a) At university.
(b) In combat.
(c) At an air force training grounds.
(d) In Canada.

3. Where had the narrator's mother taught her to dive off a board?
(a) The town pool.
(b) Her cousin's pool.
(c) The YMCA.
(d) Their backyard pool.

4. Where is Anna's first child buried?
(a) In the backyard plot.
(b) In the circus cemetery.
(c) In a cemetery near their house in New Hampshire.
(d) She was cremated.

5. What is the narrator's father's occupation?
(a) Teacher.
(b) Trapeze artist.
(c) Doctor.
(d) Lawyer.

6. What happened to Anna's baby after the disaster?
(a) She miscarried.
(b) It was stillborn.
(c) He was born and Anna named him Harold.
(d) She was born premature.

7. What does the narrator say is the greatest difficulty of her mother's blindness in paragraph 15?
(a) Not being able to clean her own house.
(b) Not being able to see her grandchildren.
(c) Not being able to read.
(d) Not being able to look at old photographs.

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

9. What type of weather does the narrator describe in paragraph 12 when discussing her sister's grave?
(a) Rain.
(b) Sunshine.
(c) Humidity.
(d) Snow.

10. Why is the narrator easily able to pick her sister's gravestone from afar?
(a) It is shaped like a lamb at rest.
(b) It is shaped like a heart.
(c) It is shaped like a baby girl.
(d) It is shaped like a trapeze swinger.

11. 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 take her for walks.
(c) To read to her.
(d) To clean the house.

12. Where did the narrator sometimes go when she was a child "just to sit" (para. 11)?
(a) Her sister's grave.
(b) Her school playground.
(c) A nearby brook.
(d) Her grandmother's garden.

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

14. What does the narrator think must have happened to her mother after she was taken to the hospital the day of the disaster?
(a) She found out her husband died.
(b) She hemmorhaged.
(c) She lost her vision.
(d) She miscarried.

15. Who took care of Harold's body after he died?
(a) His brothers.
(b) Harold's parents.
(c) His uncle.
(d) Anna.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does the narrator say she often thought of her sister when she was young?

2. What did Anna's second husband buy her when she was in the hospital, which she had never had before?

3. What is the second thing Anna did the day of the disaster when she did not feel her husband's hands?

4. How did the fire get put out on the day of the disaster?

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

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