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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 does the narrator point out in paragraph one about how her mother moves through the house?
(a) She never bumps into anything or knocks anything over.
(b) She acts as though her daughter is not there.
(c) She barely moves so as not to disturb anything.
(d) She is quite clumsy.

2. Who is said to have taken Anna in as a child and trained her to perform?
(a) The Avalons.
(b) Her neighbors.
(c) Her aunt.
(d) The ringleader.

3. What does the narrator say her mother did the first time she owes her existence to her?
(a) She saved herself.
(b) She saved her daughter's life.
(c) She was born.
(d) She met her first husband.

4. Who is the author of "The Leap"?
(a) Leonora Ellis.
(b) Eleanor Lee.
(c) Louise Erdrich.
(d) Leslie Eldridge.

5. What is the name of the narrator's mother's act?
(a) The Fluttering Angels.
(b) The Floating Avatars.
(c) The Flying Avalons.
(d) The Fledgling Abyssinians.

Short Answer Questions

1. What was the narrator's mother's former career as stated in the first sentence?

2. Where is Anna's first child buried?

3. What stands "cast in concrete" (para. 3) to commemorate the accident?

4. What did the narrator's mother once tell her one would be amazed by?

5. What condition does the narrator's mother have as explained in paragraph 1?

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