The Leap

Which detail from the story helps create suspense?

• "It was during her confinement in the hospital that my mother met my father."

• "She used the phone, then ran outside to stand beneath my window."

• "I owe her my existence three times."

• "They sat. They ate caramelized popcorn and roasted peanuts."

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CCSS.RL.9-10.1

CCSS.RL.9-10.5

When the narrator says in lines 151-152, "I wonder if my father calculated the exchange he offered: one form of flight for another," she means that...

• reading offered her mother a different type of thrill.

• once her parents married, they flew frequently.

• her father found freedom in his marriage.

• her mother never took another flight in her life.

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CCSS.L.9-10.5

CCSS.RL.9-10.1

CCSS.RL.9-10.2

CCSS.RL.9-10.4

What motivates the narrator to return home?

• pity for her mother's inability to cope with her blindness

• the desire to help her mother as her mother has helped her

• the need for financial security

• disillusionment with her own life

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CCSS.RL.9-10.2

CCSS.RL.9-10.3

Which detail helps you visualize the difficulty of Anna's rescue of her daughter?

• "Outside, my mother stood below my dark window and saw clearly that there was no rescue."

• "Flames had pierced one side wall, and the glare of the fire lighted the massive limbs and trunk of the vigorous old elm..."

• "She was hanging by the backs of her heels from the new gutter we had put in that year..."

• "The wind roared and beat its hot breath at our back, the flames whistled."

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CCSS.RL.9-10.1

CCSS.RL.9-10.4

Which statement lists the events in the correct sequence?

• Anna rescues the narrator; the narrator returns home; the narrator's father dies.

• Anna marries a second time; the narrator returns home; Anna becomes blind.

• The narrator returns home; the narrator's father dies; Anna rescues the narrator from a fire.

• Anna survives her circus fall; Anna rescues the narrator; the narrator returns home.

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CCSS.RL.9-10.5

A tentative reply is...

• correct.

• uncertain.

• assertive.

• quiet.

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CCSS.L.9-10.4

CCSS.L.9-10.5

CCSS.RL.9-10.4

To comply with regulations is to...

• change them.

• argue about them.

• ignore them.

• carry them out.

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CCSS.L.9-10.4

CCSS.RI.9-10.4

Which word or phrase is related to extricate?

• overflow

• run away

• untangle

• ask nicely

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CCSS.L.9-10.4

CCSS.L.9-10.5

What does the word encroaching mean? 

• intruding on
• honors a memory
• setting free

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CCSS.L.9-10.4

CCSS.L.9-10.4A

CCSS.L.9-10.4D

CCSS.RL.9-10.4

constricting

• preventing freedom of movement
• honors a memory
• hesitant

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CCSS.L.9-10.4

CCSS.L.9-10.5

CCSS.RI.9-10.4

CCSS.RL.9-10.4