The Leap by Louise Erdrich
Authored by Mike Myers
English
9th - 11th Grade
CCSS covered
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This quiz assesses students' comprehension and literary analysis skills for Louise Erdrich's short story "The Leap," targeting 9th to 11th grade English Language Arts students. The questions test multiple levels of understanding, from basic plot comprehension and character details to more sophisticated analysis of literary devices like foreshadowing and flashback structure. Students must demonstrate their ability to track complex narrative timelines, understand character relationships and motivations, identify key story events, and recognize how authors use literary techniques to enhance meaning. The quiz requires students to distinguish between events told in chronological order versus those presented through flashbacks, analyze the symbolic meaning behind the mother's advice about falling, and connect how past events influence present circumstances in the narrator's life. Created by Mike Myers, an English teacher in the US who teaches grades 9 and 11. This comprehensive assessment serves multiple instructional purposes in the English classroom, functioning effectively as a formative assessment after students complete the reading, a review tool before class discussions about narrative structure and literary devices, or as homework to reinforce close reading skills. Teachers can use individual questions as discussion starters or warm-up activities, particularly those focusing on foreshadowing and flashback techniques. The quiz aligns with Common Core Standards CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RL.9-10.1 and CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RL.9-10.3, as it requires students to cite textual evidence to support analysis of explicit and inferred meaning while analyzing how complex characters develop throughout the story and interact with plot elements to advance the narrative.
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1.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
3 mins • 1 pt
What was the mother's job before the narrator was born?
Nurse
Rodeo Clown
Trapeze artist
Teacher
Secretary
Tags
CCSS.RL.7.6
CCSS.RL.8.6
CCSS.RL.5.6
CCSS.RL.6.6
2.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
3 mins • 1 pt
"I owe her my existence three times," the narrator says. Which of the following is not one of those three times?
The time her mother survived a circus accident
The time her mother rescued her from a house fire
The time her mother and father first met
The fact that the narrator's sister died
Tags
CCSS.RL.7.6
CCSS.RL.8.6
CCSS.RL.5.6
CCSS.RL.6.6
3.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
3 mins • 1 pt
The narrator's mother deals with the past in an unusual way. She...
Keeps old photographs, posters, and clippings all over the house
Often tells highly exaggerated stories about her youth
Hardly talks about it and has kept very few souvenirs
Still seems to think she is living in the time when she was young
Tags
CCSS.RL.11-12.3
CCSS.RL.7.6
CCSS.RL.8.6
CCSS.RL.9-10.3
CCSS.RL.6.3
4.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
3 mins • 1 pt
What does the narrator's mother tell her about the act of falling?
Once you start, you keep going faster and faster till you hit bottom
You can get up and try again, no matter how often you fall
It's amazing how many things you can do while you're falling
Whether you fall isn't important; what's important is how you fall
Tags
CCSS.RL.8.3
CCSS.RL.2.6
5.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
3 mins • 1 pt
At the time the narrator tells the story, she is living in
Her mother's house in New Hampshire
New Mexico, where she grew up
A tent at the Avalon Circus
A hospital where she is recovering from a fall
Tags
CCSS.RL.11-12.3
CCSS.RL.8.3
CCSS.RL.9-10.3
CCSS.RL.6.3
CCSS.RL.7.3
6.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
3 mins • 1 pt
How did the narrator's mother and father meet?
They were circus performers
They met in the hospital while her mother was recovering from an injury
They met in Europe during the war
He saved her from a house fire
Tags
CCSS.RI.11-12.3
CCSS.RI.6.3
CCSS.RI.7.3
CCSS.RI.8.3
CCSS.RI.9-10.3
7.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
3 mins • 1 pt
The narrator's mother performs a heroic act when she
Directs the firefighters in putting out the fire
Puts out the fire with her own hands, burning them severely
Gives up her own life to save her daughter
Does a circus leap up to the window to rescue the narrator
Tags
CCSS.RL.7.6
CCSS.RL.8.6
CCSS.RL.5.6
CCSS.RL.6.6
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