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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 did Anna's second husband buy her when she was in the hospital, which she had never had before?
2. Where did the narrator's mother and father meet?
3. What does the narrator say is the greatest difficulty of her mother's blindness in paragraph 15?
4. How did the fire get put out on the day of the disaster?
5. How did Anna's hands get burned during the disaster?
Short Essay Questions
1. 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?
2. What was Anna's history with the Avalons?
3. What quick actions did Anna muster in the first moment of the disaster during her performance?
4. What injuries did Anna suffer on the day of the disaster? What happened when she was in the hospital?
5. How did Anna and the narrator's father meet? What had he done prior to this meeting?
6. How did the narrator think of her sister when she was young and why?
7. Why does the narrator return to her childhood home to live with her mother after her father passes?
8. Describe the narrator's sister's gravestone.
9. Where was Harold buried? Where was Anna and Harold's child buried?
10. What did the narrator's father teach Anna? What did she do for him in exchange?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Write an essay describing the imagery used in “The Leap." Indicate examples of imagery in the text and identify possible meanings.
Essay Topic 2
Write a detailed analysis of tone in Louise Erdich’s “The Leap." Include whether the tone changes or remains the same. If it changes, include details on when, why and whether this change is effective.
Essay Topic 3
Write a brief essay analyzing the title “The Leap.” Explore the ways in which this title connects to the plot and themes of the story.
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