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"The Leap" In-Text Analysis

Authored by Leigha Messer

English

11th Grade

CCSS covered

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"The Leap" In-Text Analysis
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1.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

45 sec • 1 pt

In “The Leap,” what does the narrator suggest is the main reason that her

mother, now blind from cataracts, can still safely negotiate her New Hampshire

home?

She has lived there a long time.

She once saved the narrator’s life.

She was once part of a blindfold trapeze act.

She has a highly developed sense of hearing.

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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

2.

DRAW QUESTION

3 mins • 1 pt

As explained in “The Leap,” what causes the circus disaster in which Harry

Avalon dies?

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CCSS.RL.5.6

CCSS.RL.6.6

CCSS.RL.7.6

CCSS.RL.8.6

3.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

45 sec • 1 pt

After the narrator’s mother in “The Leap” is injured in the accident,

why is the narrator’s father called to the hospital to help her?

He teaches people to read and write.

He has experience in circus disasters.

He wants to make amends for starting the fire.

He is familiar with treating her sort of injury.

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CCSS.RL.2.10

CCSS.RL.2.2

CCSS.RL.2.3

CCSS.RL.4.3

CCSS.RL.4.4

4.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

45 sec • 1 pt

In “The Leap,” after the mother marries for the second time, what

seems to be her attitude toward her early years as a circus performer?

She enjoys recalling her days as a famous acrobat.

She seems to have put her past behind her.

She longs for the romance of those years.

She deeply regrets her early career.

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CCSS.RL.2.10

CCSS.RL.2.2

CCSS.RL.2.3

CCSS.RL.4.3

CCSS.RL.4.4

5.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

45 sec • 1 pt

Which means of transportation would most Americans today consider to be

superannuated?

airplane

spaceship

automobile

stagecoach

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CCSS.RI.11-12.4

CCSS.RI.8.4

CCSS.RI.9-10.4

CCSS.RL.11-12.4

CCSS.RL.9-10.4

6.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

45 sec • 1 pt

Which phrase best describes the mother in “The Leap” when she jumps

onto the burning house to rescue her daughter?

calm and capable

caring but hesitant

nervous and embarrassed

frightened but determined

Tags

CCSS.RL.2.10

CCSS.RL.2.2

CCSS.RL.2.3

CCSS.RL.4.3

CCSS.RL.4.4

7.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

45 sec • 1 pt

What do the details in this excerpt from “The Leap” most clearly

foreshadow?

[S]ometimes, as I sit sewing in the room of the rebuilt house in which I slept as a

child, I hear the crackle, catch a whiff of smoke from the stove downstairs, and

suddenly the room goes dark, the stitches burn beneath my fingers, and I am

sewing with a needle of hot silver, a thread of fire.

the narrator’s returning to live with her elderly mother

the revelation of the mother’s blindness in later life

the memory of the fire that the narrator escaped

the story of the mother’s time in the hospital

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CCSS.RL.2.10

CCSS.RL.2.2

CCSS.RL.2.3

CCSS.RL.4.3

CCSS.RL.4.4

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