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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. What is something the narrator says happens when she is in her room and gets a "whiff of smoke from the stove downstairs" (para.2)?
2. In paragraph 6, what does the narrator say her mother is able to live comfortably in?
3. What does the narrator sometimes do in her childhood room?
4. What are some things the narrator says her mother has not kept from her youth?
5. According to paragraph 4, during what month did Anna experience her disaster?
Short Essay Questions
1. What stands in the center of town as a reminder of the disaster? Where does the narrator find out about the events that day?
2. What detail about Anna was not mentioned in the newspaper accounts of the disaster?
3. What type of performer was the narrator's mother? Where does she live and what is her medical condition?
4. How does the narrator describe the way her mother moves through their home in New Hampshire in paragraph 1?
5. Describe Anna and Harold's typical trapeze performance.
6. 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?
7. Why does the narrator find it unsurprising that her mother was able to perform while seven months pregnant?
8. Why does the narrator sometimes forget that her mother was part of the Flying Avalons?
9. How is the scene at the circus before the disaster described? What was the weather like? What was the audience doing?
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
Write an essay analyzing the narrative structure of “The Leap." What effect does this have on the story and the reader? Use direct examples from the story to support your analysis.
Essay Topic 2
What words are most impactful? Explain your answers.
Essay Topic 3
Write an essay analyzing Louise Erdich’s commentary on family and motherhood in “The Leap.”
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