The Leap by Louise Erdrich
Answer the following questions using complete sentences.
1. What caused the disaster at the circus, and what happened to the Flying Avalons?
2. How did the narrator’s parents meet, and what trade did they offer to each other?
3. How does the narrator escape her burning house? Why would it have seemed natural for the mother to
tear off her outer clothes before the rescue?
4. Why does the narrator say she has returned to her mother’s house?
5. The narrator refers to reading as a “form of flight”. Do you agree? Explain.
Lail / Communications I 1