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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.
Short Answer Questions
1. Where had the narrator's mother taught her to dive off a board?
2. What does the narrator say is the greatest difficulty of her mother's blindness in paragraph 15?
3. What type of weather does the narrator describe in paragraph 12 when discussing her sister's grave?
4. Who is said to have taken Anna in as a child and trained her to perform?
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. What did the narrator's father teach Anna? What did she do for him in exchange?
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. What quick actions did Anna muster in the first moment of the disaster during her performance?
5. How did Anna and the narrator's father meet? What had he done prior to this meeting?
6. How did the narrator think of her sister when she was young and why?
7. What injuries did Anna suffer on the day of the disaster? What happened when she was in the hospital?
8. What was Anna's history with the Avalons?
9. Where was Harold buried? Where was Anna and Harold's child buried?
10. Describe the narrator's sister's gravestone.
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Look at the structure of the novel. How does the novel's structure drive the narrative?
Essay Topic 2
Genre is a category assigned to a literary work, like a novel. What are some genres that could be used to classify the story? Explain.
Essay Topic 3
Discuss elements of the narrative structure: Exposition, conflict, complication, climax, resolution and conclusion. Do all the elements make for a logical and linear story? How does the story's structure express the story’s themes?
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