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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. What word does the narrator use to describe her mother's time in the hospital?
3. What does the narrator think must have happened to her mother after she was taken to the hospital the day of the disaster?
4. Where had the narrator's father "spent his war" as explained in paragraph 13?
5. Where did the narrator sometimes go when she was a child "just to sit" (para. 11)?
Short Essay Questions
1. How did Anna and the narrator's father meet? What had he done prior to this meeting?
2. What was Anna's history with the Avalons?
3. 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?
4. Why does the narrator return to her childhood home to live with her mother after her father passes?
5. Describe the narrator's sister's gravestone.
6. What did the narrator's father teach Anna? What did she do for him in exchange?
7. Where was Harold buried? Where was Anna and Harold's child buried?
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. What injuries did Anna suffer on the day of the disaster? What happened when she was in the hospital?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Write an essay discussing the setting and time period of “The Leap." In what ways does the time period and setting impact your understanding of the story as well as the themes?
Essay Topic 2
Write an essay analyzing Louise Erdich’s commentary on family and motherhood in “The Leap.”
Essay Topic 3
Write an essay analyzing Louise Erdich’s language style and word choice in “The Leap." What are some words that stand out to you and why? What words are repeated?
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