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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. What did Irene’s erstwhile fiancé drink?

2. What Clubmobile fills in for the Rapid City while Irene and Dorothy are in Cannes?

3. Which of the following units does the Rapid City accompany?

4. With what are Irene and Dorothy gifted after working in a field hospital?

5. At what hotel do Irene and Dorothy stay in Cannes?

Short Essay Questions

1. What orders do Irene and Dorothy have at Le Singe Bleu?

2. What methods do Clubmobile workers use to deflect sexual advances?

3. Why does Irene only strike a thin line through the phrase “Trance of romance in France” (235)?

4. What prompts Irene and Dorothy to conduct their donut service just before Easter with French accents?

5. To what life does Billy G return after he leaves the war?

6. Why do the Germans in Weimar freeze upon the arrival of Patton and McBride?

7. How does Penney explain placing Holly with the Rapid City?

8. In the novel, what is spider-crawling?

9. What prompts Irene to decide not to eat her Clubmobile’s donuts again?

10. How does one German professor explain the beginning of the war on Germany’s part?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

In the novel, the comment is made that “When women rule the world…we’ll have smarter wars” (163). What would such a war look like, and why?

Essay Topic 2

To what genre other than historical fiction might Good Night, Irene, be considered to belong? What in the text supports that identification? How does it do so?

Essay Topic 3

Which character is the second most important in the text? How does the work support such an assertion?

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