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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 type of weather does the narrator describe in paragraph 12 when discussing her sister's grave?

2. Where had the narrator's father "spent his war" as explained in paragraph 13?

3. Where did the narrator's mother and father meet?

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

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

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

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

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

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

9. 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?

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Discuss why you think the author chose to leave out the name of the narrator and her father in “The Leap.”

Essay Topic 2

Write an essay examining the ending of “The Leap." How did the ending fit into the storyline? Do you think the ending was effective? What theme might the ending represent? What might the author have done differently?

Essay Topic 3

Away from the main character examine the way the author uses the other characters in the book. When does she introduce and take them away from the story? What effect does it have on the story?

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