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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. Where does Jamie train for the navy?

2. As which of the following does Cochrane identify Marian?

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

4. A professor of what subject buys Wallace’s house?

5. What instrument does Redwood play?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

5. How does Eddie describe his usual view from the navigator’s desk?

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

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

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

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

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Overall, what is the most important theme of Great Circle. What in the text indicates as much? How does it do so?

Essay Topic 2

A lack of formal sectional division in the novel obliges a fairly arbitrary breakdown of the text for purposes of study and discussion. On what grounds might the current divisions be in place? Why and how are they appropriate to the text?

Essay Topic 3

A lack of formal sectional division in the novel obliges a fairly arbitrary breakdown of the text for purposes of study and discussion. How might the novel be sectioned off other than it currently is? Why might those divisions be appropriate, based on the text and its contexts of composition and reception?

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