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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Paragraphs 9 - 15 .

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What phrase is used to describe the narrator's mother's movements in paragraph 2?
(a) Like a bull in a china shop.
(b) Catlike precision.
(c) Stealthlike manner.
(d) Graceless fumbling.

2. What is something the narrator says happens when she is in her room and gets a "whiff of smoke from the stove downstairs" (para.2)?
(a) The stitches burn beneath her fingers.
(b) She panics and cannot breath.
(c) She knows her mother must be cooking something special.
(d) She scurries to make sure her mother is okay.

3. What is the second thing Anna did the day of the disaster when she did not feel her husband's hands?
(a) She yelled for help.
(b) She tore off her blindfold.
(c) She changed direction.
(d) She grasped his ankle.

4. How many times does the narrator say she owes her existence to her mother?
(a) 9.
(b) Dozens.
(c) 3.
(d) 2.

5. What weather condition resulted in the disaster Anna and her husband experienced during their act?
(a) A tsunami.
(b) A tornado.
(c) A gale.
(d) A blizzard.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is the author of "The Leap"?

2. What does the narrator say audience members ate while waiting for the act to begin?

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

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

5. What does the narrator say is the greatest difficulty of her mother's blindness in paragraph 15?

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