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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. Which of the following advertisements do the American soldiers mimic?

2. With which of the following does "Personality on Legs" begin?

3. Where does Irene dispose of her engagement ring?

4. With whom of the following did the author’s mother serve?

5. Which of the following do Irene and Dorothy find on the table of the house where they take refuge from attack?

Short Essay Questions

1. For what reason had Irene’s family prompted her first engagement?

2. Why, per the novel, is the Red Cross red?

3. What, in the novel, does “LST” signify?

4. What is the reason behind the imperative for Clubmobile workers not to walk into a field?

5. Why was Irene told to put a slip of paper with “Jesus” on it in her shoes?

6. What, in the novel, is the Great Unburdening?

7. What causes the basement where Irene and Dorothy are trapped to flood?

8. How does Garcia explain his enlistment?

9. What attracts the crew of the Rapid City to the bar in Cambridge?

10. How did Irene acquire the nickname “Gator”?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

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

Essay Topic 2

Similarly, the novel makes much of letters reaching Irene. What effect do the epistolary interjections have on the narrative, and how is that effect achieved?

Essay Topic 3

What overall philosophical position does the novel take? What in the text indicates that position? How does the text indicate it?

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