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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. How many cross-country flights is Marian expected to complete before her training concludes?

2. To which artists’ collective does Jamie belong in Vancouver?

3. What is the name of Sarah’s husband?

4. To what kind of shrub does Jamie compare Marian and Caleb’s relationship?

5. What skin does Caleb have on the floor of his cabin outside Missoula?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why is the Spitfire argued to be a feminine plane?

2. How does Barclay die?

3. Why does Jamie give up searching for his father in Seattle?

4. What difference does Hugo note between playing a person and playing a fictional character?

5. What does Redwood note as being his preferred word, and why?

6. What prank is Lindbergh reported to have played on a friend?

7. With whom does Marian transit from Montreal to Britain?

8. What response does Marian give to Ruth’s question about why people in Britain do not cry?

9. What reasons are offered for Alaskans’ acceptance of Marian after years of her masquerade under another identity?

10. Why does Sarah note liking Jamie’s drawings of her?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

A significant amount of readerly attention focuses on a quotation taken from Marian Graves’s logbook: “Circles are wondrous because they are endless. Anything endless is wondrous. But endlessness is torture, too. I knew the horizon could never be caught but still chased it. What I have done is foolish; I had no choice but to do it” (7). Does the novel substantiate the assertions of the quotation? How or how not?

Essay Topic 2

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 3

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?

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