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

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

3. Where is Anna's first child buried?

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

5. Where did the narrator sometimes go when she was a child "just to sit" (para. 11)?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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 the narrator think of her sister when she was young and why?

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

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Discuss the theme of sight in “The Leap.”

Essay Topic 2

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

Essay Topic 3

Write an essay analyzing narrative voice in “The Leap." Include thoughts on how the narrative voice of the story is effective in conveying the story’s themes.

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