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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 make of motorcycle does Garcia report having?

2. To which of the following is Dorothy bidden flee?

3. What kind of dessert does Irene have on her first night in Cannes?

4. What fixture do the bathrooms of Le Singe Bleu boast?

5. How tall is Smitty?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does Dorothy initially wear a beret?

2. How does Penney explain placing Holly with the Rapid City?

3. Why do the Germans not shoot Irene as she stalks through the forest outside Bastogne?

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

5. How do American forces respond to discovering Nazis in hiding after the surrender of Weimar?

6. To what life does Billy G return after he leaves the war?

7. What does Irene give Handyman as they depart from Cannes?

8. What methods do Clubmobile workers use to deflect sexual advances?

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

10. What plan for life after the war does Dorothy voice to Irene?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

To what other writer’s work in your experience does Urrea’s seem most similar? What makes the writers similar? What differentiates them? Overall, which do you regard as doing better at the craft of writing, and why?

Essay Topic 2

In the novel, some characters are given but one name, while others are given first- and surnames, and still others are accorded names and titles. What significance, if any, accrues to patterns of naming in the novel? If no significance accrues, what purpose might be served by the patterns of naming in the novel? How does Good Night, Irene, bear as much out?

Essay Topic 3

Overall, what is the most important theme of Good Night, Irene. What in the text indicates as much? How does it do so?

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