The Hawk Can Soar Quiz

The author most likely narrates her essay out of chronological order to help convey her —

• memories and thoughts about her disease

• anger about her disease and its history

• medical condition and its treatment

• career history and hopes for the future

In paragraph 3, the author most likely includes information about her family's history to —

• explain the time it takes to recognize the disease

• give the reader more information about her personality

• offer a scientific medical diagnosis

• help readers understand how lucky she has been

Impossible to disprove; unquestionable.

The term chimera in paragraph 7 alludes to a monster in Greek mythology composed of parts from multiple animals, commonly a lion, goat, and snake. By describing her thoughts as a chimera, the author most likely intends to —

• describe the range of different thoughts she has

• emphasize the implausibility of her thoughts

• prove how monstrous her thoughts feel

• show which way her thoughts are pulling her

The phrase 'tilting at windmills' alludes to an event in the novel Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes where the protagonist imagines he is fighting giants when he is actually fighting windmills. What does the phrase 'tilting at windmills' likely mean in paragraph 7?

• Fighting in battle

• Fighting to spite others

• Fighting for a better reality

• Fighting in vain

Spreading harmfully in a subtle way.

Eventually, however, I am disabled. Disabled. Like this word is the sum total of my existence. That dragging leg. That dropping foot. That unbearable fatigue. A woman with a rollator moving slowly through the world. These things signal my difference whenever I move. They are obvious. Unrestrained.

Which two sentences from paragraph 8 are purposeful fragments?

• Eventually, however, I am disabled.

• That dragging leg.

• A woman with a rollator moving slowly through the world.

• These things signal my difference whenever I move.

• They are obvious.

Soon, I leave my university career. I slowly begin to disappear from view. The things I have earned seem ever further away. This is the nature of this difference, I realize. The way disability stands in for everything you were or ever would have been. Even when you say it will not. Even when you refuse its existence. Disability is contemptuous of your refusal. It scoffs at your desperate concern. It pushes forward and it drags you after it.

In paragraph 9, the author uses personification to describe her —

• career

• concern

• disability

• future

To deteriorate due to disease, injury, or lack of use.

The author describes her experience with her illness in detail to —

• ensure that readers will be sympathetic

• demonstrate that she is not as ill as it seems

• show how people can overcome their circumstances

• make it clear that she is not her disease