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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

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

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

5. How did Anna get severely injured during the disaster?
(a) A rescuer broke her arm trying to help her.
(b) The tent toppled her and she got a concussion
(c) She fell from her swing and broke her leg.
(d) She burned her hands trying to grab onto something.

Short Answer Questions

1. In paragraph 15, why does the narrator say she came to stay with her mother after her father's death?

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

3. Why is the narrator easily able to pick her sister's gravestone from afar?

4. Where had the narrator's father "spent his war" as explained in paragraph 13?

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

Short Essay Questions

1. Why does the narrator return to her childhood home to live with her mother after her father passes?

2. Describe the narrator's sister's gravestone.

3. What was Anna's history with the Avalons?

4. What did the narrator's father teach Anna? What did she do for him in exchange?

5. What did the narrator's mother once tell her she would be amazed by? Where does the narrator think she may have told her this and why?

6. Where was Harold buried? Where was Anna and Harold's child buried?

7. How did Anna and the narrator's father meet? What had he done prior to this meeting?

8. What injuries did Anna suffer on the day of the disaster? What happened when she was in the hospital?

9. What quick actions did Anna muster in the first moment of the disaster during her performance?

10. How did the narrator think of her sister when she was young and why?

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