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

2. What do Irene and Handyman drink with oysters on the docks in Cannes?

3. What does Irene receive from her family in a package?

4. With which of the following does "This Is How We Forget" begin?

5. From where is Brown?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

6. What methods do Clubmobile workers use to deflect sexual advances?

7. How does Penney explain placing Holly with the Rapid City?

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

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

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

To what other writer’s work in your experience does Urrea’s seem most similar? What makes the writers similar? What differentiates them? Overall, which do you regard as doing better at the craft of writing, and why?

Essay Topic 2

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

Essay Topic 3

Overall, what is the most important theme of Good Night, Irene. What in the text indicates as much? How does it do so?

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