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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 Dorothy set up as a target for her shooting lesson with Irene?

2. How tall is Smitty?

3. Which of the following does Handyman offer to sing for Irene?

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

5. At what bistro do Dorothy and Irene eat in Cannes?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

8. How does Dorothy initially wear a beret?

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

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

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

Essay Topic 2

Typically, an epigraph is expected to speak to or set the tone for the work it introduces. Do the epigraphs of Good Night, Irene, do so for the present novel? How or how not?

Essay Topic 3

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?

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