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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 times does the narrator say she owes her existence to her mother?
2. What stands "cast in concrete" (para. 3) to commemorate the accident?
3. What does the narrator say her mother did the first time she owes her existence to her?
4. What does the narrator sometimes do in her childhood room?
5. What does the narrator suggest may have been Harold's final thought as he fell into the crowd on the day of the disaster?
Short Essay Questions
1. What events followed lightning striking the main tent pole while Harold and Anna were performing?
2. How does the narrator describe the way her mother moves through their home in New Hampshire in paragraph 1?
3. What type of performer was the narrator's mother? Where does she live and what is her medical condition?
4. Why does the narrator sometimes forget that her mother was part of the Flying Avalons?
5. Describe Anna and Harold's typical trapeze performance.
6. What stands in the center of town as a reminder of the disaster? Where does the narrator find out about the events that day?
7. 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?
8. Why does the narrator find it unsurprising that her mother was able to perform while seven months pregnant?
9. What detail about Anna was not mentioned in the newspaper accounts of the disaster?
10. How is the scene at the circus before the disaster described? What was the weather like? What was the audience doing?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Write an essay analyzing Louise Erdich’s commentary on family and motherhood in “The Leap.”
Essay Topic 2
Write an essay examining fire as a symbol in Leap. In what scenes does fire appear? What is the context? How does this symbol develop the narrative?
Essay Topic 3
Write an essay analyzing Louise Erdich’s decision to tell the story using third person point-of-view from the narrator's perspective. How does this impact the reader's understanding of the story's events? Is this effective? Why or why not?
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