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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 magazine is noted as the Clubmobile’s preference?

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

3. With which of the following does "This Is How We Forget" begin?

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

5. Which of the following units does the Rapid City accompany?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

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

7. Why does Dorothy like the motor pool?

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

9. How does one German professor explain the beginning of the war on Germany’s part?

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

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

In the novel, the comment is made that “When women rule the world…we’ll have smarter wars” (163). What would such a war look like, and why?

Essay Topic 3

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?

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