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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 brand of coffee does the Rapid City serve?

2. To which of the following does Irene compare a B-17?

3. From what state does Garcia come?

4. Which of the following songs does the Rapid City have in its collection?

5. In the novel, what is Miller’s Law?

Short Essay Questions

1. What attracts the crew of the Rapid City to the bar in Cambridge?

2. How does Garcia explain his enlistment?

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

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

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

6. What is the reason behind the imperative for Clubmobile workers not to walk into a field?

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

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

9. What are Irene’s terms of service with the Red Cross?

10. What are “sounds” on the breakfast menu Irene encounters aboard ship?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

What does the novel assert a hero is? How does it do so?

Essay Topic 2

What overall philosophical position does the novel take? What in the text indicates that position? How does the text indicate it?

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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