Print
Word
PDF
|
| Name: _________________________ | Period: ___________________ |
This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.
Short Answer Questions
1. What did Harold and Anna do in midair during their act according to paragraph 5?
2. What would Harold show the audience members during part of their act?
3. What did the ringmaster do to introduce the Flying Avalons on the day of the disaster?
4. Where does the narrator and her mother live?
5. How many acts performed before Anna and her husband's act on the day of the disaster?
Short Essay Questions
1. How is the scene at the circus before the disaster described? What was the weather like? What was the audience doing?
2. What detail about Anna was not mentioned in the newspaper accounts of the disaster?
3. What events followed lightning striking the main tent pole while Harold and Anna were performing?
4. Why does the narrator sometimes forget that her mother was part of the Flying Avalons?
5. 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?
6. Why does the narrator find it unsurprising that her mother was able to perform while seven months pregnant?
7. What type of performer was the narrator's mother? Where does she live and what is her medical condition?
8. How does the narrator describe the way her mother moves through their home in New Hampshire in paragraph 1?
9. Describe Anna and Harold's typical trapeze performance.
10. What stands in the center of town as a reminder of the disaster? Where does the narrator find out about the events that day?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
What words are most impactful? Explain your answers.
Essay Topic 2
Write an essay about the author of “The Leap." Who is she? What else has she written? How is “The Leap” similar or different from her previous works?
Essay Topic 3
Away from the main character examine the way the author uses the other characters in the book. When does she introduce and take them away from the story? What effect does it have on the story?
|
This section contains 728 words (approx. 3 pages at 300 words per page) |
|
