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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. Who succeeds Cochrane in Britain?

2. In which city do Marian and Barclay wed?

3. What brand of shoe is Redwood wearing when Hadley first meets him for lunch?

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

5. Which of the following is Mitch reported to have directed?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. How does Barclay die?

4. What subjects does Marian study in Britain?

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

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

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

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

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

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

A significant amount of readerly attention focuses on the comment that Marian “hadn’t anticipated how much of her behavior after marriage would be motivated by a wish not to argue” (269). What in the novel and in experience might account for the attention, and how might they do so?

Essay Topic 2

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?

Essay Topic 3

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?

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