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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Front Matter and Part One: This Is How We Remember.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. With whom of the following did the author’s mother serve?
(a) Lavinia Carlson.
(b) Helen Anderson.
(c) Guenevere Donaldson.
(d) Camilla Benson.

2. What had been the name of Dashiell’s Model T?
(a) The Trapeze.
(b) The Trampoline.
(c) The Platform.
(d) The Incline.

3. In which hotel does Irene stay in Washington, DC?
(a) The Blackstone.
(b) The Watergate.
(c) Waldorf Astoria.
(d) Swann House.

4. With which of the following does the novel begin?
(a) “Irene stuffed a letter to Handyman in the mailbag and opened a fan letter in a flimsy international airmail envelope.”
(b) “The sisters needed to sleep for a year.”
(c) “Then Irene Woodward escaped New York and went to war.”
(d) “The old life was over.”

5. Which of the following magazines does Irene carry out of New York?
(a) Harper’s Bazaar.
(b) Astounding Science Fiction.
(c) The Atlantic.
(d) The New Yorker.

Short Answer Questions

1. Irene serves a soldier from which of the following in her first Clubmobile service?

2. What kind of plane does Handyman fly?

3. Which of the following is the first English city Irene reaches?

4. From which of the following is one of the novel’s epigraphs taken?

5. Which of the following is the first Dorothy claims to be reading?

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