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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. What newsletter does the Rapid City carry?

3. Which of the following surprises Irene and Dorothy in Cannes?

4. What operation had liberated Cannes?

5. What kind of artillery are Dorothy and Irene allowed to fire?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

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 2

Similarly, the novel makes much of letters reaching Irene. What effect do the epistolary interjections have on the narrative, and how is that effect achieved?

Essay Topic 3

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

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