The Leap by Louise Erdrich

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

• Nurse

• Rodeo Clown

• Trapeze artist

• Teacher

• Secretary

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CCSS.RL.9-10.1

"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

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CCSS.RL.9-10.1

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

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CCSS.RL.9-10.3

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

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CCSS.RL.9-10.4

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

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CCSS.RL.9-10.1

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

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CCSS.RL.9-10.3

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

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CCSS.RL.9-10.1

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The narrator's father taught her mother to...

• Fly

• Read

• Speak

• Listen

• Walk

Another word for foreshadowing is...

• Guess

• Inference

• Hint

• Device

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CCSS.L.9-10.4

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CCSS.RL.9-10.4

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

• No hot sun beat upon the striped tent

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