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

2. About what artist does Irene want to tell Dorothy?

3. Which of the following photographs Irene?

4. From which of the following does Penney hail?

5. Which of the following magazines does Irene carry out of New York?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why was Irene told to put a slip of paper with “Jesus” on it in her shoes?

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

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

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

5. Why does Irene recognize herself as a coward?

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

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

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

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

10. How did Irene acquire the nickname “Gator”?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

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

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

Consider the ending of the novel. Does it satisfy? How or how not?

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