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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 does Irene receive from her family in a package?

2. To which of the following is Overseas Woman compared?

3. What American officer accepts the surrender of Weimar?

4. How does the novel translate Le Singe Bleu?

5. What is the name of Dorothy and Irene’s waiter on their first night in Cannes?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does Dorothy initially wear a beret?

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

3. In the novel, what is a cheese bell?

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

5. What does Garcia note is Irene’s main problem driving?

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

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

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

9. Why does Irene fear the word “grace” as she awaits transit to Cannes?

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

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

Essay Topic 2

Explicate the significance of the name of any one character in the text.

Essay Topic 3

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?

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