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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. Where was Harold Avalon buried?

2. Who is said to have taken Anna in as a child and trained her to perform?

3. How did Anna's hands get burned during the disaster?

4. What does the narrator think must have happened to her mother after she was taken to the hospital the day of the disaster?

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

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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 the narrative structure of “The Leap." What effect does this have on the story and the reader? Use direct examples from the story to support your analysis.

Essay Topic 2

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?

Essay Topic 3

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

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