Literary Analysis Task Leap

Which detail from the story helps create suspense?

• "It was during her confinement in the hospital that my mother met my father."

• "She used the phone, then ran outside to stand beneath my window."

• "I owe her my existence three times."

• "They sat. They ate caramelized popcorn and roasted peanuts."

Tags

CCSS.RL.11-12.4

CCSS.RL.6.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

CCSS.RL.8.4

CCSS.RL.9-10.4

When the narrator says in lines 151-152, "I wonder if my father calculated the exchange he offered: one form of flight for another," she means that...

• reading offered her mother a different type of thrill.

• once her parents married, they flew frequently.

• her father found freedom in his marriage.

• her mother never took another flight in her life.

Tags

CCSS.RI. 9-10.1

CCSS.RI.8.1

CCSS.RL.11-12.2

CCSS.RL.8.1

CCSS.RL.9-10.2

What attracted the narrator's father to Anna?

• She was a trapeze artist.

• She wanted to live in New Hampshire.

• She could not read.

• She had traveled the world.

Tags

CCSS.RL.5.6

CCSS.RL.6.6

CCSS.RL.7.6

CCSS.RL.8.6

What motivates the narrator to return home?

• pity for her mother's inability to cope with her blindness

• the desire to help her mother as her mother has helped her

• the need for financial security

• disillusionment with her own life

Tags

CCSS.RL.11-12.7

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.9-10.3

Which detail helps you visualize the difficulty of Anna's rescue of her daughter?

• "Outside, my mother stood below my dark window and saw clearly that there was no rescue."

• "Flames had pierced one side wall, and the glare of the fire lighted the massive limbs and trunk of the vigorous old elm..."

• "She was hanging by the backs of her heels from the new gutter we had put in that year..."

• "The wind roared and beat its hot breath at our back, the flames whistled."

Tags

CCSS.RI. 9-10.1

CCSS.RI.7.1

CCSS.RI.8.1

CCSS.RL.8.1

CCSS.RL.9-10.2

At the end of the story, why does the narrator mention twice that she was embarrassed by her mother's lack of clothing?

• She feels ashamed now of her feelings then.

• She still wishes her mother hadn't removed her dress.

• She now realizes how cold her mother was.

• She has vowed never to be like her mother.

Tags

CCSS.RL.5.6

CCSS.RL.6.6

CCSS.RL.7.6

CCSS.RL.8.6

Which statement lists the events in the correct sequence?

• Anna rescues the narrator; the narrator returns home; the narrator's father dies.

• Anna marries a second time; the narrator returns home; Anna becomes blind.

• The narrator returns home; the narrator's father dies; Anna rescues the narrator from a fire.

• Anna survives her circus fall; Anna rescues the narrator; the narrator returns home.

Tags

CCSS.RI.11-12.3

CCSS.RI.6.3

CCSS.RI.7.3

CCSS.RI.8.3

CCSS.RI.9-10.3

A tentative reply is...

• correct.

• uncertain.

• assertive.

• quiet.

Tags

CCSS.RI.7.4

CCSS.RI.8.4

CCSS.RI.9-10.4

CCSS.RL.8.4

CCSS.RL.9-10.4

To comply with regulations is to...

• change them.

• argue about them.

• ignore them.

• carry them out.

Tags

CCSS.RI.7.4

CCSS.RI.8.4

CCSS.RI.9-10.4

CCSS.RL.8.4

CCSS.RL.9-10.4

Which word or phrase is related to extricate?

• overflow

• run away

• untangle

• ask nicely

Tags

CCSS.RI.7.4

CCSS.RI.8.4

CCSS.RI.9-10.4

CCSS.RL.8.4

CCSS.RL.9-10.4