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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 is said to have taken Anna in as a child and trained her to perform?
2. What does the narrator say is the greatest difficulty of her mother's blindness in paragraph 15?
3. Where was Harold Avalon buried?
4. What are some places the narrator says her mother had been and her father "longed to visit" (para. 13)?
5. What type of weather does the narrator describe in paragraph 12 when discussing her sister's grave?
Short Essay Questions
1. How did Anna and the narrator's father meet? What had he done prior to this meeting?
2. Why does the narrator return to her childhood home to live with her mother after her father passes?
3. What quick actions did Anna muster in the first moment of the disaster during her performance?
4. What injuries did Anna suffer on the day of the disaster? What happened when she was in the hospital?
5. 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?
6. How did the narrator think of her sister when she was young 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 was Anna's history with the Avalons?
10. What did the narrator's father teach Anna? What did she do for him in exchange?
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 language style and word choice in “The Leap." What are some words that stand out to you and why? What words are repeated?
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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