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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. In which of the following cities does Marian stop along her circumnavigation?

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

3. With which of the following woods will the decks of the Josephina Eterna be planked?

4. Under which of the following names is Gone-to-the-Spirits known?

5. Near which city was Felix trained to fly?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does Stanley hide his alcohol production?

2. How do Hadley’s parents die?

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

In “The Cosmic Whoosh of the Expanding Universe,” Hadley comments on the mismatches between Marian’s logbook and the novelization thereof. Hadley’s own project is a reinterpretation of the novelization. What attitude toward adaptation does the novel display, and how does it display as much?

Essay Topic 2

Sources attest to the presence of Great Circle on bestseller lists. Assuming that sales figures reflect popularity, what accounts for the popularity of the novel? How does it do so?

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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