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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. At what age does Penney become enamored by Holly?

2. What American officer accepts the surrender of Weimar?

3. With which of the following does The Autumn Road begin?

4. With what are Irene and Dorothy gifted after working in a field hospital?

5. What denomination is Dorothy?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why were American soldiers told not to feed the inmates at Buchenwald?

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

3. What happens to Irene when she first attempts to fire a pistol under Dorothy’s tutelage?

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

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

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

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

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

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

10. How does Dorothy initially wear a beret?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Which character is the second most important in the text? How does the work support such an assertion?

Essay Topic 2

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?

Essay Topic 3

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?

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