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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. Whom of the following helps Dorothy stay upright?

2. From where is Brewer?

3. How many of the enemy is Irene estimated to have killed via artillery?

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

5. What denomination is Dorothy?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why does Dorothy like the motor pool?

2. In the novel, what is spider-crawling?

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

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

Essay Topic 2

Similarly, the lengths of chapters influence reading. What pattern of chapter-length is present in the novel, if any? What effect does the length of chapters have on the reading? How is the effect achieved?

Essay Topic 3

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

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