ENGLISH: THE LEAP EXAM QUESTIONS WITH CORRECT ANSWERS
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ENGLISH: THE LEAP EXAM QUESTIONS WITH CORRECT ANSWERS
What was the narrator's dad's job? - Answer-He specialized in arms and legs that were broken during parachute training programs at the army base.
What did the narrator's father teach Anna how to do? - Answer-Read and write
What does the ...
ENGLISH: THE LEAP EXAM QUESTIONS
WITH CORRECT ANSWERS
What was the narrator's dad's job? - Answer-He specialized in arms and legs that were
broken during parachute training programs at the army base.
What did the narrator's father teach Anna how to do? - Answer-Read and write
What does the narrator say id the hardest part about her mom going blind? - Answer-
She couldn't read anymore
Why did Anna and her husband move away after getting married? - Answer-Anna's
child was buried there
The narrator also talks about being in a fire when she was younger. How did the fire
start? - Answer-It started because either her father put hot ashes into a cardboard box
or he forgot to clean the chimney.
How did the narrator get out of the house during the fire? - Answer-Her mother climbed
the tree and jumped onto the roof, climbed in through her window, and got her out.
In what sense does the narrator owe her life to her mother's decision? - Answer-Is Anna
wouldn't have saved herself, she would have died.
Why does the narrator feel she owes her life to her mother? - Answer-She owes her
birth to her mother and is later saved by her mother from a house fire.
What is one difference and one similarity among the ways i which Anna saved her
daughter's life? - Answer-Only 1 of the 3 events actually involved the narrator (the hose
fire), the first 2 make her birth possible. One similarity is that they all represent the
choices her mother makes.
Why does Anna make the leap at the end of the story? - Answer-Because she realizes
that no one else can save her daughter
What qualities does the leap represent? - Answer-Courage, strength, skill, and maternal
love
In what ways is the narrator's view of reality shaped by the choices her mother makes? -
Answer-Her choices lead the narrator to believe that a single decision can change the
course of a person's life.
Intruding on, especially in a gradual way - Answer-Encroaching
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