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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.
Short Answer Questions
1. How many acts performed before Anna and her husband's act on the day of the disaster?
2. What weather condition resulted in the disaster Anna and her husband experienced during their act?
3. What metaphor is used in paragraph 5 to describe the way Anna and Harold would drop through the air during their act?
4. What does the narrator sometimes do in her childhood room?
5. Who was the other half of her mother's act?
Short Essay Questions
1. Describe Anna and Harold's typical trapeze performance.
2. What type of performer was the narrator's mother? Where does she live and what is her medical condition?
3. Why does the narrator say people in the East are at a disadvantage regarding weather changes than those in the West, where she used to live?
4. Why does the narrator find it unsurprising that her mother was able to perform while seven months pregnant?
5. How does the narrator describe the way her mother moves through their home in New Hampshire in paragraph 1?
6. How is the scene at the circus before the disaster described? What was the weather like? What was the audience doing?
7. What detail about Anna was not mentioned in the newspaper accounts of the disaster?
8. Why does the narrator sometimes forget that her mother was part of the Flying Avalons?
9. What stands in the center of town as a reminder of the disaster? Where does the narrator find out about the events that day?
10. What events followed lightning striking the main tent pole while Harold and Anna were performing?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Discuss why you think the author chose to leave out the name of the narrator and her father in “The Leap.”
Essay Topic 2
What words are most impactful? Explain your answers.
Essay Topic 3
Discuss the theme of sight in “The Leap.”
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