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

2. What make of car does Handyman drive in Cannes?

3. At what hotel do Irene and Dorothy stay in Cannes?

4. What orderly tends to Irene during her convalescence?

5. From where is Brown?

Short Essay Questions

1. How do Dorothy and Smitty greet when they meet in Cannes?

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

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

4. How does Dorothy initially wear a beret?

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

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

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

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

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

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

What case does the novel make for (or against) the acceptability of violence? How does it make that case?

Essay Topic 2

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

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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