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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. How does the narrator say she often thought of her sister when she was young?
3. Where was Harold Avalon buried?
4. Where did the narrator's mother and father meet?
5. Where had the narrator's mother taught her to dive off a board?
Short Essay Questions
1. What did the narrator's father teach Anna? What did she do for him in exchange?
2. What was Anna's history with the Avalons?
3. Why does the narrator return to her childhood home to live with her mother after her father passes?
4. How did the narrator think of her sister when she was young and why?
5. How did Anna and the narrator's father meet? What had he done prior to this meeting?
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. Describe the narrator's sister's gravestone.
9. What quick actions did Anna muster in the first moment of the disaster during her performance?
10. What injuries did Anna suffer on the day of the disaster? What happened when she was in the hospital?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
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?
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
Write an essay examining fire as a symbol in Leap. In what scenes does fire appear? What is the context? How does this symbol develop the narrative?
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