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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Paragraphs 1 - 8 .

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What metaphor is used in paragraph 5 to describe the way Anna and Harold would drop through the air during their act?
(a) Like dragonflies in the night.
(b) Like two peas in a pod.
(c) Like two sparkling birds.
(d) Like two doves in love.

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

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

4. In paragraph 2, what does the narrator say she sometimes thinks her mother has no memory of from her youth?
(a) School dances and young love.
(b) Double somersaults and heart-stopping catches.
(c) Cramming for tests and getting good grades.
(d) Devouring books and writing poetry.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What did Anna and Harold do "openly" as they performed according to paragraph 5?

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

3. What detail about Anna does the narrator note was not mentioned in the newspaper accounts of the disaster?

4. After reading paragraph 1, what do readers learn about the narrator's mother's former partner?

5. Where does the narrator say the tabloids carried the story of their town's disaster?

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