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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. To which of the following does Irene compare her situation with Dorothy under German attack?

2. What instrument does Handyman play?

3. What color dress does the doll have that Irene takes up?

4. Which of the following does Irene’s drill instructor call her?

5. Which of the following poets’ works does Irene find in Glatton?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why is the base at Glatton named after Glatton rather than the nearer Conington?

2. Why does Irene recognize herself as a coward?

3. Why, per the novel, is the Red Cross red?

4. Why are Clubmobile workers afforded officer rank?

5. What donut-making advice do Irene and Dorothy receive from a soldier while sheltering from German attack?

6. In the novel, what does a Zone 5 patch signify?

7. What had been the “most infamous” of Irene’s adolescent escapes from home (5)?

8. What, in the novel, is the Great Unburdening?

9. What, in the novel, does “LST” signify?

10. How is the category “Third Girl on the Bus” established?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Explicate the significance of the name of any one character in the text.

Essay Topic 2

Which character is the second most important in the text? How does the work support such an assertion?

Essay Topic 3

To what other writer’s work in your experience does Urrea’s seem most similar? What makes the writers similar? What differentiates them? Overall, which do you regard as doing better at the craft of writing, and why?

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