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The Leap HMH Quiz

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Question 10

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Read this description of Anna from paragraph 1.

She has never upset an object or as much as brushed a magazine onto the floor. She has never lost her balance or bumped into a closet door left carelessly open.

The description suggests that Anna has retained her —

graceful acrobatic skills

capacity for dealing with extreme situations

matter-of-fact approach to challenges

ability to remain calm

Read this sentence from paragraph 5.

They loved to drop gracefully from nowhere, like two sparkling birds, and blow kisses as they threw off their plumed helmets and high-collared capes.

What is suggested about the Flying Avalons by the simile used in the description?

How skillful and natural their acrobatics were

How romantic their relationship was

How attractively they were dressed

How small and fragile they seemed to be

Read how the words unnoticed in paragraph 4 and unseen in paragraph 12 are used in context. What is the meaning of the prefix un-?

Bad

Not

Again

Never

The phrase one form of flight for another in paragraph 15 suggests that the —

feeling of contentment is connected to love

ability to read allows the imagination to soar

father understands what the mother has given up

mother is willing to exchange excitement for safety

The narrator implies that the main reason she moved back to her childhood home to care for her mother was due to her feeling of —

guilt

obligation

gratitude

admiration

This list reflects the order in which events in “The Leap” are mentioned in the selection. Label the events in the chronological order in which they actually occurred in the timeline. The first event will be labeled 1, and the last event will be labeled 5.

The narrator lives in the West.

Anna saves herself during a trapeze act when lightning strikes the tent pole.

Anna leaps into a burning house to save her daughter.

Anna loses her sight.

The narrator listens to her mother’s heartbeat.

Which theme is conveyed in the selection?

Sometimes a moment in time can seem longer than it actually is.

Living through difficult circumstances can breed resentment.

We rely on our sense of sight more than any other sense.

Children often grow to be more like their parents than they expect.

Most of “The Leap” is narrated as a series of flashbacks. What does the use of flashbacks allow the author to do that could not have been done without this technique?

Control the pacing to increase the tension of the story’s climactic moment

Use the narrator’s adult knowledge to revise unflattering events from her childhood

Slow down significant moments of the story and speed up less significant moments

Narrate important events of the story in reverse chronological order

Which two inferences can you make about the narrator as a child?

She wanted to become an acrobat.

She had complete faith in her mother.

She was easily frightened.

She was very curious.

She was obedient.

Which element makes it difficult to identify the climax in “The Leap”?

The use of two main characters, the narrator and her mother

The use of a narrator who is never named

The story ending, in which the narrator and her mother are still descending to safety on the

Two plot lines, one involving the Flying Avalons and the other involving the narrator as 
a child