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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. A museum in which of the following cities buys one of Jamie’s paintings?

2. Which of the following epithets does Fahey assign to Jamie?

3. After how many cross-country flights is Marian graduated from training?

4. What instrument does Redwood play?

5. From which location does Marian first fly a Spitfire?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does Barclay die?

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

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

4. Why does Jamie warn Marian away from Barclay, albeit unsuccessfully?

5. What insight into fear does Hadley report having from playing Marian?

6. Why are women prohibited from flying Class VI planes?

7. What reasons are given for the ATA not teaching flight by instrumentation?

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

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

10. How does Marian handle the miner she picks up in McCarthy?

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

What overall attitude towards vice does the novel display? How does that attitude emerge?

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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