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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 sails around the world in the Spray?

2. Which company does Hugo note is underwriting the film for which he recruits Hadley?

3. To which tribe is Sitting-in-the-Water-Grizzly reported to have belonged?

4. What is the name of the horse Wallace, Marian, and Jamie have in Missoula?

5. In what city had Hadley’s parents lived?

Short Essay Questions

1. For what does Marian grieve after her first flight to Vancouver?

2. How does Matilda mark out the distinctions among first-, second-, and third-class passengers on the Josephina Eterna?

3. How does the novel define the term “vrille” (187)?

4. How is Addison’s home in New York City described?

5. At Addison’s trial, what theory is advanced for the destruction of his ship?

6. What is noted as forcing Miss Dolly to relocate her establishment?

7. How is the term “great circle” defined?

8. What does Marian note is the “great unifying thesis” of Marx’s teaching (184)?

9. What brings the Brayfogles through Missoula?

10. What is remarked upon as Wallace’s “one unexpected strictness” (87)?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Sources attest to the presence of Great Circle on bestseller lists. Assuming that sales figures reflect popularity, what accounts for the popularity of the novel? How does it do so?

Essay Topic 2

The novel remarks that Addison Graves accepts “A plea of manslaughter” and a sentence of ten years in prison for his actions in leaving the Josephina Eterna (53-54). Are the charge and sentence appropriate, given the circumstances? How or how not?

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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