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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. In which of the following do Irene and Dorothy work?

2. What does Irene have at the Albergo Giancarlo?

3. What did Irene’s erstwhile fiancé drink?

4. With what are Irene and Dorothy gifted after working in a field hospital?

5. What type of transceiver do Clubmobiles have?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why do the Germans in Weimar freeze upon the arrival of Patton and McBride?

2. What prompts Irene and Dorothy to conduct their donut service just before Easter with French accents?

3. What does it mean to “lower the profile” of a vehicle in the novel?

4. What orders do Irene and Dorothy have at Le Singe Bleu?

5. What prompts Irene to decide not to eat her Clubmobile’s donuts again?

6. What happens to Irene when she first attempts to fire a pistol under Dorothy’s tutelage?

7. Of what does Irene dream as she awaits transit to Cannes?

8. Why were American soldiers told not to feed the inmates at Buchenwald?

9. Why does Irene only strike a thin line through the phrase “Trance of romance in France” (235)?

10. How do Dorothy and Smitty greet when they meet in Cannes?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Assuming that Good Night, Irene, should be standard reading for a given class and level, what class and what level? Why that class and why that level? What in the text suggests as much, and how does it do so?

Essay Topic 2

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

Essay Topic 3

Section divisions, their titles, and chapter numbering / division schema are all components of paratext. That is, they are not part of the text but are associated with it closely and affect its meaning. What significance, if any, accrues to the chapter-numbering scheme at work in Good Night, Irene? If there is significance, how does that significance manifest? If there is not, what in the novel justifies the paratextual divisions that are in place?

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