The Leap Analysis

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.RL.11-12.10

CCSS.RL.8.10

CCSS.RL.8.4

CCSS.RL.9-10.10

CCSS.RL.9-10.9

In speaking of her mother, the narrator of “The Leap” says, “I owe her my existence three times.” To which of the mother’s actions does the narrator most clearly refer? Choose three options.

• learning to read and write

• giving birth to the narrator

• rescuing the narrator in the fire

• 
  staying in the narrator's hometown

• saving herself in the circus disaster

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CCSS.RI.11-12.10

CCSS.RI.9-10.10

CCSS.RL.11-12.10

CCSS.RL.8.10

CCSS.RL.9-10.10

As explained in "The Leap," what causes the circus disaster in which Harry Avalon dies?

• a faulty piece of equipment

• unruly spectators

• a lightning bolt

• human error

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CCSS.RL.5.6

CCSS.RL.6.6

CCSS.RL.7.6

CCSS.RL.8.6

The narrator of "The Leap" describes walking to a gravesite just down the highway when she was growing up. Who is buried in that gravesite?

• her father

• her mother's first husband

• the spectators lost during the disaster

• the unborn daghter whom her mother lost in the circus disaster

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CCSS.RL.11-12.10

CCSS.RL.8.4

CCSS.RL.8.5

CCSS.RL.9-10.10

CCSS.RL.9-10.9

In “The Leap,” which of the following seem especially important to the narrator’s mother after her second marriage? Choose two options.

• fame

• family

• sewing

• reading

• remembering

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CCSS.RL.2.10

CCSS.RL.2.2

CCSS.RL.2.3

CCSS.RL.4.3

CCSS.RL.4.4

Which type of person would most likely be described as encroaching?

• a spectator

• a trespasser

• a homemaker

• a professor

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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

To answer an e-mail instantaneously, what must you do?

• answer immediately

• answer uneasily

• answer angrily

• answer humorously

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CCSS.RL.2.6

CCSS.RL.8.3

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

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 has experience in circus performing.

• He teaches people to read and write.

• He is familiar with limb injuries in the miltary.

• He wants to make ammends for starting the fire.

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CCSS.RL.2.10

CCSS.RL.2.2

CCSS.RL.2.3

CCSS.RL.4.3

CCSS.RL.4.4

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 deeply regrets her early career.

• She longs for the romance of those years.

• She seems to have put her past behind her.

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CCSS.RL.2.10

CCSS.RL.2.2

CCSS.RL.2.3

CCSS.RL.4.3

CCSS.RL.4.4