Select every sentence where something impossible happens. There are SIX correct answers.
Exerpt from "The Paper Menagerie" by Ken Liu
One of my earliest memories starts with me sobbing. I refused to be soothed no matter what Mom and Dad tried.
Dad gave up and left the bedroom, but Mom took me into the kitchen and sat me down at the breakfast table.
“Kan, kan.” Look, look, she said, as she pulled a sheet of wrapping paper from on top of the fridge. For years, Mom carefully sliced open the wrappings around Christmas gifts and saved them on top of the fridge in a thick stack.
She set the paper down, plain side facing up, and began to fold it. I stopped crying and watched her, curious.
She turned the paper over and folded it again. She pleated, packed, tucked, rolled, and twisted until the paper disappeared between her cupped hands. Then she lifted the folded-up paper packet to her mouth and blew into it, like a balloon.
“Kan,” she said. “Laohu.” Look, a tiger. She put her hands down on the table and let go. A little paper tiger stood on the table, the size of two fists placed together. The skin of the tiger was the pattern on the wrapping paper, white background
with red candy canes and green Christmas trees.
I reached out to Mom’s creation. Its tail twitched, and it pounced playfully at my finger. “Rawrr-sa,” it growled, the sound somewhere between a cat and rustling newspapers.
I laughed, startled, and stroked its back with my index finger. The paper tiger vibrated under my finger, purring.
“Zhe jiao zhezhi,” Mom said. This is called origami.
I didn’t know this at the time, but Mom’s breath was special. She breathed into her paper animals so that they shared her breath, and thus moved with her life.
This was her magic.
The narrator compares his mother lifting the paper packet to her mouth and blowing into it to inflating "a balloon." How does this comparison MOST contribute to the tone of the passage?
The tiger's growl is described as "somewhere between a cat and rustling newspapers." This description MOST develops the meaning of the passage by —.
Late in the excerpt, the narrator interrupts the memory to say, "I didn't know this at the time, but Mom's breath was special." This shift in perspective MOST clearly signals that the narrator's purpose is to —
Part A: The excerpt establishes that the mother's paper animals move because they "shared her breath, and thus moved with her life." What does this detail MOST strongly suggest about how she expresses love for her son?
Part B: Which detail from the excerpt BEST supports the answer to Part A?