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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 ship delivers the Graves family to safety?

2. Where is Marian assigned after completing Class IV training?

3. Through which city does Marian enter Alaska?

4. To which of the following does Marian compare B-17s?

5. Where does Marian meet Eddie?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. Hadley watches a documentary about one of Adelaide’s artistic projects; describe the project briefly.

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

4. How does Marian interpret Cochran’s carefully constructed appearance?

5. What hinders Jamie’s initial search for work in Seattle?

6. What reason does Marian give to Barclay for wanting to visit a nightclub?

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

8. What is the initial direction in Hadley’s script?

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

10. What fears does Jamie note harboring with regard to the Faheys?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Jamie is reported to comment that “Some people are rotten inside, and the rottenness will never go away” (137). Does the novel bear out the comment? How or how not?

Essay Topic 2

Which of the two focal characters, Marian or Hadley, is the more important in the novel? What in the novel suggests as much, and 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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