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B. Answer the questions based on the information provided in the reading text. Use scanning
to find the information.
Annie Oakley, an intriguing figure in American entertainment, was a markswoman who starred in
Buffalo Bill’s Wild West Show, where she was often called “Little Sure Shot.” She was born in 1860 in
Darke County, Ohio, and her original name was Phoebe Ann Moses. As a child, she hunted game
with such success that, according to legend, by selling it in Cincinnati, Ohio, she was able to pay off
the mortgage on the family farm. When she was 15 she won a shooting match in Cincinnati with
Frank E. Butler, a vaudeville marksman, and they were married a year later. For the next ten years
they toured the country and performed in theaters and circuses as “Butler and Oakley.” In April
1885, Annie Oakley, now under her husband’s management, joined “Buffalo Bill” Cody’s Wild West
Show. Billed as “Miss Annie Oakley, the Peerless Lady Wing Shot,” she was one of the show’s star
attractions for sixteen years.
Oakley never failed to delight her audiences, and her feats of marksmanship were truly incredible. At
30 paces she could split a playing card held edge-on, and she hit dimes tossed into the air. She shot
cigarettes from her husband’s lips, and, when he threw a playing card into the air, she would shoot it
full of holes before it touched the ground. She was a great success on the Wild West Show’s
European trips.
In 1887, she was presented to Queen Victoria, and later in Berlin she performed her cigarette trick
with, at his insistence, Crown Prince Wilhelm (later Kaiser Wilhelm II) holding the cigarette. A train
wreck in 1901 left her partially paralyzed for a time, but she recovered and returned to the stage to