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

2. What did the narrator's mother once tell her one would be amazed by?

3. What word does the narrator use to describe her mother's time in the hospital?

4. What does the narrator say seems to happen to her sister's grave as the years progress?

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

Short Essay Questions

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

2. 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?

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Genre is a category assigned to a literary work, like a novel. What are some genres that could be used to classify the story? Explain.

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