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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. What make of car does Marian buy after Wallace loses his car?

2. Lloyd loses a son to which of the following?

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

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

5. In what city had Hadley’s parents lived?

Short Essay Questions

1. In what hiding places does Marian secret money?

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

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

4. What reason does Hadley cite for leaving Oliver?

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

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

7. What treatment is first prescribed for Annabel’s perceived libidinousness?

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

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

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

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?

Essay Topic 2

The novel remarks that Addison Graves accepts “A plea of manslaughter” and a sentence of ten years in prison for his actions in leaving the Josephina Eterna (53-54). Are the charge and sentence appropriate, given the circumstances? How or how not?

Essay Topic 3

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?

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