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

2. What word does the narrator use to describe her mother's time in the hospital?
(a) Vacation.
(b) Rehabilitation.
(c) Imprisonment.
(d) Confinement.

3. 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 many things a mother can do.
(c) How scared she was each time she performed.
(d) How much money a trapeze artist makes.

4. 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 lost her vision.
(b) She found out her husband died.
(c) She hemmorhaged.
(d) She miscarried.

5. What are some places the narrator says her mother had been and her father "longed to visit" (para. 13)?
(a) Egypt, Hawaii, Moscow and Berlin.
(b) Africa, Australia, China, and Japan.
(c) Portugal, Morocco, London, and Thailand.
(d) Venice, Rome, Mexico, France, and Spain.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where is Anna's first child buried?

2. How many people died during the disaster?

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

4. Near what family member was Harold buried?

5. What did Anna's second husband teach her to do while in hospital?

Short Essay Questions

1. 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?

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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