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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's hands get burned during the disaster?

2. What is the second thing Anna did the day of the disaster when she did not feel her husband's hands?

3. What happened to Anna's baby after the disaster?

4. What did Anna's second husband buy her when she was in the hospital, which she had never had before?

5. Where had the narrator's mother taught her to dive off a board?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

10. 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?

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 decision to tell the story using third person point-of-view from the narrator's perspective. How does this impact the reader's understanding of the story's events? Is this effective? Why or why not?

Essay Topic 3

Write an essay about the author of “The Leap." Who is she? What else has she written? How is “The Leap” similar or different from her previous works?

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