Carry on Free Text Entry with Carry Foreward Choices

Hello together, I have a small problem with my questionnair. In one question I give the respondent a multiple choice answer and then carry on the selected choices for the respondent to rank in a next question. My problem now is, that the respondent can enter a free text in the last box of the multiple choice question. If this box gets carried foreward, the text disappears and the respondent would have to re-enter his text. This seems a bit annoying and I am sure that there is a way around with some sort of piped-text. But I haven't figured out how. Can you help? Best, Fabian