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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. From which airport does Hadley fly for Las Vegas?

2. What is Marian’s first duty station in Britain?

3. How many combat missions allow aircraft crew to return home?

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

5. What type of plane does Marian buy in Alaska?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

6. What subjects does Marian study in Britain?

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

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

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

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

The comment is made about Jamie’s portraiture that “make someone too perfect, and the likeness becomes a critique” (223). Why might this be the case? How might it occur?

Essay Topic 2

Typically, an epigraph is expected to speak to or set the tone for the work it introduces. Does the epigraph of Great Circle do so for the present novel? How or how not?

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. On what grounds might the current divisions be in place? Why and how are they appropriate to the text?

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