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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. 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.

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

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

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

5. Who is said to have taken Anna in as a child and trained her to perform?
(a) Her neighbors.
(b) The Avalons.
(c) The ringleader.
(d) Her aunt.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the narrator think must have happened to her mother after she was taken to the hospital the day of the disaster?

2. What does the narrator say seems to happen to her sister's grave as the years progress?

3. What did the narrator's mother once tell her one would be amazed by?

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

5. What word does the narrator use to describe her mother's time in the hospital?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. 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?

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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