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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 island does Hadley see during her first flying lesson?

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

3. In a commercial for which of the following does Hadley note first acting?

4. For how many years does Wallace own a Cadillac?

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

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What reasons are reported for Lena hunting via rifle rather than trap?

3. How does Matilda mark out the distinctions among first-, second-, and third-class passengers on the Josephina Eterna?

4. What brings the Brayfogles through Missoula?

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

6. When her father asks what he could have done to help her, what reply does Annabel make?

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

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

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

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

A lack of formal sectional division in the novel obliges a fairly arbitrary breakdown of the text for purposes of study and discussion. How might the novel be sectioned off other than it currently is? Why might those divisions be appropriate, based on the text and its contexts of composition and reception?

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

Consider the celebration in Missoula of Lindbergh’s successful trans-Atlantic flight (92-93). What does it suggest about the participants that they celebrate the event, and how is the suggestion made?

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