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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 make of car does Handyman drive in Cannes?

2. What does Dorothy set up as a target for her shooting lesson with Irene?

3. What conveys Irene and Dorothy to Cannes?

4. Whom of the following hitchhikes to Paris for dental work?

5. At what age does Penney become enamored by Holly?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

There is a substantial jump in time between Parts Four and Five. What effect does this have on the reader, and how is the effect produced?

Essay Topic 2

Section divisions, their titles, and chapter numbering / division schema are all components of paratext. That is, they are not part of the text but are associated with it closely and affect its meaning. What significance, if any, accrues to the chapter-numbering scheme at work in Good Night, Irene? If there is significance, how does that significance manifest? If there is not, what in the novel justifies the paratextual divisions that are in place?

Essay Topic 3

Conversely, given demonstrated efforts toward censorship in a number of countries, what would likely prompt bans of Good Night, Irene? By which groups? Why?

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