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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 was Garcia’s boxing record?

2. Which of the following cocktails does Dorothy favor?

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

4. Which of the following are included in Clubmobile rations?

5. Which of the following movie stars is stationed near Glatton?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why does Penney ask Irene and Dorothy to carry brandy for him?

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

3. What does Irene posit about the life of the German soldier who threatens her and Dorothy?

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

5. How does Garcia explain his enlistment?

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

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

8. For what reason had Irene’s family prompted her first engagement?

9. What causes the basement where Irene and Dorothy are trapped to flood?

10. How do Irene and Dorothy use the water they are rationed for washing?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Typically, an epigraph is expected to speak to or set the tone for the work it introduces. Do the epigraphs of Good Night, Irene, do so for the present novel? How or how not?

Essay Topic 2

What case does the novel make for (or against) the acceptability of violence? How does it make that case?

Essay Topic 3

Throughout the novel, Irene attempts to write letters to her mother. Why is she is not always successful? What in the novel demonstrates as much, and how does it do so?

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