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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. At what age does Cochrane become pregnant?

3. In which state is Jamie beaten by a rail yard bull?

4. Eddie is shot down on which of his combat missions?

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

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

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 2

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 3

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?

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