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

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

3. Where did the narrator sometimes go when she was a child "just to sit" (para. 11)?

4. Who took care of Harold's body after he died?

5. What word does the narrator use to describe her mother's time in the hospital?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

8. 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?

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

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Pick a character from the novel and discuss their goals and motives. Do they achieve their motive? Do they share similar goals and motives with other characters? Do their goals clash with other characters? How do the characters goals and motives affect their interaction with each other?

Essay Topic 2

Discuss the theme of sight in “The Leap.”

Essay Topic 3

Discuss elements of the narrative structure: Exposition, conflict, complication, climax, resolution and conclusion. Do all the elements make for a logical and linear story? How does the story's structure express the story’s themes?

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