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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. Which of the following does Hadley report her therapist bids her imagine?

2. Which island does Hadley see during her first flying lesson?

3. What is the name of Caleb’s mother?

4. Where does Lindbergh land at the end of his first trans-Atlantic flight?

5. Who sails around the world in the Spray?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What reasons does Hugo cite for asking Hadley not to have a meltdown?

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

4. How do Hadley’s parents die?

5. What is remarked upon as Wallace’s “one unexpected strictness” (87)?

6. What does Thompson report telling the indigenous people he encounters alongside Gone-to-the-Spirits?

7. In what hiding places does Marian secret money?

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

9. How does Stanley hide his alcohol production?

10. What is Marx’s primary observation about flight?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Typically, an epigraph is expected to speak to or set the tone for the work it introduces. Does the epigraph of Great Circle do so for the present novel? How or how not?

Essay Topic 2

Overall, what is the most important theme of Great Circle. What in the text indicates as much? How does it do so?

Essay Topic 3

A lack of formal sectional division in the novel obliges a fairly arbitrary breakdown of the text for purposes of study and discussion. On what grounds might the current divisions be in place? Why and how are they appropriate to the text?

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