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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 orderly tends to Irene during her convalescence?

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

3. How tall is Smitty?

4. To what lake does Handyman intend to take Irene?

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

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

5. Why was the target of Dorothy’s last mission not to be executed?

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

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

8. How does Dorothy initially wear a beret?

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

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

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 2

Assuming that Good Night, Irene, should be standard reading for a given class and level, what class and what level? Why that class and why that level? What in the text suggests as much, and how does it do so?

Essay Topic 3

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?

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