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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. From whom does Garcia recover dog-tags?

2. What article of clothing does Irene wear that shocks Dorothy?

3. Which of the following is the first English city Irene reaches?

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

5. Whose music does Irene put on after emerging from the basement?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why does Irene favor autumn?

2. Why does Garcia drive towards Singe Bleu?

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

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

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

6. Why are Clubmobile workers afforded officer rank?

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

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

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

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

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?

Essay Topic 2

To what genre other than historical fiction might Good Night, Irene, be considered to belong? What in the text supports that identification? How does it do so?

Essay Topic 3

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?

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