Characters
The mother's performance name
Flying Avalons
Does the daughter believe she owes her life to her mother?
True
'I owe her my existence ... times'
Three
Exposition of the story?
Explains that her mother is now old and has cataracts and used to be a trapeze actor
These were the 3 reasons she owes her life to her mother
first time is the day that her mother saved her own life; the second, that her mother married again and was in the hospital that brought her and her husband together; the third, that her mother saved her life by rescuing her from the burning house
Mother's first husband
Harold Avalon
The event that killed the mother's first husband was because the winds blew him off the ropes?
False (instead an electric problem sent a volt, tumbling him down from the act)
'My mother is the surviving half of a ... trapeze act'
Blindfolded
Climax of the story?
The narrator and her mother jumps landing on the fire fighters targeting net
These were the 3 settings
Circus, Hospital, House (all in New Hampshire)
What performance act was from Ali-Khazar
The White Arabians
The firemen save her from their house fire?
False (instead the mother leaped from a branch to the window)
'She walks slowly through their house in ...'
New Hampshire
Rising Action of the story?
Lightning strikes the main pole, causing Harry and Anna's hand not to meet
These were the 3 different performers
White Arabians, Lady of the Mists, Mysterious Bennie
Folded himself into a painted cracker tin
The Mysterious Bernie
The mother was 7 months pregnant while still performing at the circus?
True
the ... brought them back together (parents)
hospital
Resolution of the story?
She save herself and her daughter
These are the 3 main themes
The retention of youth into old age, overcoming tragedy, a mother's love for her child
Made herself disappear in surprising places
Lady of the Mists
4 people died the day the mother lost her husband?
False (instead 3 people died)
I was ... the year the house caught fire
7
Falling Action of the story?
When the narrator's mother swings into the room to save her from the fire
In "Meet the Author" (pg.56), what are 3 of the 4 craziest jobs Louise Endrich did, before becoming an author?
Weeded beet fields, taught poetry at prisons, served as a lifeguard, and waved signal signs during construction