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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 is Rebecca's father's name?

2. For what are the Baxters blamed?

3. What does Mr. Baxter use the final leg of the journey to teach?

4. Where is Cammie at the beginning of Chapter 4?

5. What happens to Cammie when she and the Baxters arrive at their destination?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Townsend tell the class about the Circle?

2. What is different about the surroundings at dinner, who is missing, who is taking her place and what do the students do before they eat?

3. What does Solomon say to Baxter's suggestion, what does he tell Cammie, and then what does he do?

4. What does Buckingham tell Cammie and Rebecca about their adventures in London and who sees them right after they talk to him? What does she say to them?

5. What happens with Cammie after she is taken away to be questioned?

6. What takes place the first night Cammie arrives back in school, what does Macey ask Rebecca and what do the girls reveal to Cammie? How does Cammie feel about what the girls say?

7. What does Mr. Baxter do on the final leg of the journey to the Gallagher Academy?

8. How does Cammie end up with Joe Solomon, where does he take her and what is said to him there?

9. What do the girls write up in their "Covert Operations Report?"

10. What does Rebecca tell their friends after dinner and what has them worried?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

There are a number of interesting questions raised by Only the Good Spy Young. Questions that Carter most likely want readers to consider and think through carefully. Discuss the following:

1. What does the term "author agenda" mean?

2. Name one idea/concept you think may have been a part of the Carter' agenda. Analyze that idea throughout the book and discuss Carter' probable agenda concerning that idea.

2. Do you think writers who have an agenda for writing should point it out in a preface?

3. How often do you think fiction is written with a clear agenda in mind by the author?

4. Research the life of Carter and see if/where his life may have influenced his writing.

Essay Topic 2

Oftentimes, a book has more of a character-driven plot rather than action driven, and oftentimes the other way. Some books seem to balance the two. Discuss the following:

1. What do you think it means to say that a plot is character driven? Action driven?

2. How do you think a plot differs if it is character driven versus action driven?

3. Which type of plot do you find more interesting? Why?

4. Do you think it is possible to have a plot where action and character development share equal time? Why or why not.

5. What type of plot do you think Only the Good Spy Young is? Explain your response.

Essay Topic 3

Only the Good Spy Young is one book in a series of novels involving Cammie. Discuss the following.

1. What are a couple advantages of writing a series of novels about the same characters? Use examples.

2. What are a couple disadvantages of writing a series of novels about the same characters? Use examples.

3. Do you prefer to read a standalone book, or a series of books with the same main characters? Explain your response.

4. Do you think it is easier or more difficult (or about the same) to write a standalone book versus one in a series? Explain your answer.

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