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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. With which outfit had the Brayfogles worked?

2. What is the name of Hadley’s security guard?

3. What color is the hull of the Josephina Eterna painted at her christening?

4. What type of plane do the Brayfogles fly?

5. Which of the following books does Marian note reading?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. How does Stanley hide his alcohol production?

3. What brings the Brayfogles through Missoula?

4. What reason does Hadley cite for leaving Oliver?

5. What does Marian note is the “great unifying thesis” of Marx’s teaching (184)?

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

7. How is the term “great circle” defined?

8. What reason does Annabel give for refusing to bathe after the birth of her twin children?

9. What is noted as forcing Miss Dolly to relocate her establishment?

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

A significant amount of readerly attention focuses on the comment that Marian “hadn’t anticipated how much of her behavior after marriage would be motivated by a wish not to argue” (269). What in the novel and in experience might account for the attention, and how might they do so?

Essay Topic 2

As Jamie and Sarah talk in Seattle in December 1941, Jamie remarks on Marian’s desire not to be bound to people, and Sarah replies that being thus bound is the center of life. Which opinion does the novel appear to support more fully? How does it do so?

Essay Topic 3

Notably, Wallace is a painter—and Jaime becomes one later. How might the story be different were Wallace and Jaime in a different line of work or artists in another medium? Why might it be different in those ways?

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