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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 did Anna get severely injured during the disaster?

2. Near what family member was Harold buried?

3. What are some places the narrator says her mother had been and her father "longed to visit" (para. 13)?

4. What did Anna's second husband teach her to do while in hospital?

5. What type of weather does the narrator describe in paragraph 12 when discussing her sister's grave?

Short Essay Questions

1. What injuries did Anna suffer on the day of the disaster? What happened when she was in the hospital?

2. How did Anna and the narrator's father meet? What had he done prior to this meeting?

3. Where was Harold buried? Where was Anna and Harold's child buried?

4. What was Anna's history with the Avalons?

5. Why does the narrator return to her childhood home to live with her mother after her father passes?

6. What did the narrator's mother once tell her she would be amazed by? Where does the narrator think she may have told her this and why?

7. What did the narrator's father teach Anna? What did she do for him in exchange?

8. What quick actions did Anna muster in the first moment of the disaster during her performance?

9. How did the narrator think of her sister when she was young and why?

10. Describe the narrator's sister's gravestone.

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

Discuss why you think the author chose to leave out the name of the narrator and her father in “The Leap.”

Essay Topic 3

Look at the structure of the novel. How does the novel's structure drive the narrative?

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