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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What sobriquet is applied to Addison Graves?
(a) Master of Disaster.
(b) Commander Craven.
(c) Admiral Abandon-ship.
(d) Captain Cowardice.

2. What is the name of the character Hadley plays in Archangel?
(a) Milana.
(b) Valeriya.
(c) Katerina.
(d) Augustina.

3. In what year is Marian’s logbook published in the novel?
(a) 1958.
(b) 1960.
(c) 1959.
(d) 1961.

4. From whose work is the epigraph taken?
(a) Fernando Pessoa.
(b) Rainer Maria Rilke.
(c) Edna St. Vincent Millay.
(d) Anne Sexton.

5. In what city had Hadley’s parents lived?
(a) Houston.
(b) Chicago.
(c) Los Angeles.
(d) New York.

Short Answer Questions

1. Which of the following roles does Hadley note playing?

2. How much does Marian stand to earn for every book she shelves at the library?

3. Which of the following movies does Hadley note Mitch directed?

4. To which of the following is Sitting-in-the-Water-Grizzly reported to have been married?

5. What is the title of Carol Feiffer’s book about Marian?

Short Essay Questions

1. For what does Marian grieve after her first flight to Vancouver?

2. How does Stanley hide his alcohol production?

3. How do Hadley’s parents die?

4. How does Hadley describe the feeling of confronting choices at college?

5. What childhood reaction to Marian’s logbook does Hadley report to Hugo?

6. How does the novel define the term “vrille” (187)?

7. What are the three possible outcomes of a graveyard spiral?

8. How is Sitting-in-the-Water-Grizzly reported to have been killed?

9. What reasons does Hadley cite for having taken up with Oliver to begin with?

10. At Addison’s trial, what theory is advanced for the destruction of his ship?

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