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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. How did Anna's hands get burned during the disaster?
(a) She grabbed onto a metal wire that was hot from the lighting.
(b) She grabbed onto the tent just as it went up in flames.
(c) Her blind fold was on fire when she removed it.
(d) Her handle bars were struck by lightning.

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

3. What is the first thing Anna did the day of the disaster when she did not feel her husband's hands?
(a) She tore off her blindfold.
(b) She lost control and fell.
(c) She screamed for help.
(d) She grasped his ankle.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

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

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

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

4. How many people died during the disaster?

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

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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