The Leap

What was the mother's job before the narrator was born?

• Nurse

• Trapeze artist

• Rodeo clown

• Writer

Tags

CCSS.RI.1.4

CCSS.RI.2.1

CCSS.RI.3.1

CCSS.RL.2.1

CCSS.RL.3.1

Why has the narrator returned to her mother's house?

• Her mother needs someone to read to her

• The narrator's marriage has recently ended

• The narrator has not been able to earn her own living

• Her mother needs help going up and down stairs

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CCSS.RI. 9-10.1

CCSS.RI.11-12.1

CCSS.RL.11-12.2

CCSS.RL.8.1

CCSS.RL.9-10.2

The narrator's mother deals with the past in an unusual way. She...

• keeps old photos, posters, and clippings

• tells highly exaggerated stories about her youth

• hardly talks about it and has kept very few souvenirs

• still believes that she is living in the time when she was young

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CCSS.RL.11-12.3

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.6

CCSS.RL.8.6

CCSS.RL.9-10.3

How did the narrator's mother and father meet?

• They performed together in a circus

• Father was a doctor; the mother his patient

• They traveled in the same tour group all over the world

• They met when the house caught on fire

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CCSS.RI.11-12.3

CCSS.RI.6.3

CCSS.RI.7.3

CCSS.RI.8.3

CCSS.RI.9-10.3

Another word for foreshadowing is...

• guess

• inference

• hint

• device

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CCSS.RL.11-12.3

CCSS.RL.11-12.5

CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.9-10.3

CCSS.RL.9-10.5

Which line in the story most clearly foreshadows the fire?

• "My mother is the surviving half of a blindfold trapeze act..."

• "She has never upset an object or as much as brushed a magazine onto the floor."

• "Suddenly the room goes dark, the stitches burn beneath my fingers..."

• "Not hot sun beat upon the striped tent..."

Tags

CCSS.RL.2.10

CCSS.RL.2.2

CCSS.RL.2.3

CCSS.RL.4.3

CCSS.RL.4.4

Which of the following events happens earliest in TIME?

• The narrator's mother and father meet

• Harold Avalon is killed by lightening

• The narrator goes to live with her mother

• The narrator's mother saves the narrator's life

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CCSS.RL.11-12.3

CCSS.RL.11-12.5

CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.9-10.3

CCSS.RL.9-10.5

The prefix il- and Latin root word litteratus tell you that word illiterate means...

• sick; diseased

• not legal; not permitted

• expert in the Latin language

• unable to read and write

Tags

CCSS.L.4.4B

CCSS.L.5.4B

CCSS.L.6.4B

CCSS.L.7.4B

CCSS.L.8.4B

Which event in the story is NOT told in a flashback?

• The narrator remembers events that happened in her youth

• The Flying Avalon's act is destroyed by an accident

• The narrator's sister is buried

• The narrator's mother goes blind

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CCSS.RL.11-12.3

CCSS.RL.11-12.5

CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.9-10.3

CCSS.RL.9-10.5

"I owe here my existence three times," the narrator says. Which of the following is NOT one of those times?

• The time her mother survived a circus accident

• The time her mother rescued her from a fire

• The time her mother and father met

• The fact that the narrator's sister died

Tags

CCSS.RL.5.6

CCSS.RL.6.6

CCSS.RL.7.6

CCSS.RL.8.6