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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who wants to be a spy growing up?
(a) The narrator.
(b) Mr. Ali.
(c) Helene.
(d) Agathe.

2. Who does the narrator have a tense relationship with?
(a) Her dog.
(b) Her mother.
(c) Her father.
(d) Her neighbor.

3. Who inherits property from the departed?
(a) The narrator's sister.
(b) The narrator's mother.
(c) The narrator's father.
(d) The narrator.

4. Where does the narrator work?
(a) The FBI.
(b) The CIA.
(c) A grocery store.
(d) NYU.

5. Where is the twins' father?
(a) He is in California.
(b) He is in Ghana.
(c) He is dead.
(d) He is abroad.

6. Who gets sent to jail while in high school?
(a) Rhonda.
(b) Helene.
(c) Robbie.
(d) Marie.

7. Who has been stuck in the same job for 30 years?
(a) The narrator.
(b) Mr. Ali.
(c) Helene.
(d) Peggy.

8. What does Marie discover when she gets back from buying groceries in the summer?
(a) Rhonda beating up Robbie.
(b) Helene beating up Rhonda.
(c) Rhonda beating up Helene.
(d) Robbie beating up Helene.

9. What organization does Ed Ross work for?
(a) The Black Panthers.
(b) The FBI.
(c) The NAACP.
(d) The CIA.

10. Who takes care of the narrator throughout her childhood?
(a) Agathe.
(b) Pop.
(c) Helene.
(d) Mr. Ali.

11. Why does Marie get suspended from the FBI?
(a) She was late to a meeting.
(b) She yelled at her boss.
(c) She blew her cover during an operation.
(d) She falsified papers.

12. What does Ross want Marie to do with Thomas Sankara?
(a) Tell him she is a spy.
(b) Spy on him.
(c) Sleep with him.
(d) Take him to Mexico.

13. Why was the early 1960s so frightening for the narrator?
(a) Because of the possibility of nuclear war.
(b) Because of Woodstock.
(c) Because she hated school.
(d) Because of segregation.

14. Who does Marie cry in front of in Martinique?
(a) Agathe.
(b) Poochini.
(c) Robbie.
(d) Tommy.

15. Who calls the narrator from a payphone?
(a) Her uncle.
(b) Her mother.
(c) Her sister.
(d) Her father.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where does Ross send Marie for an operation?

2. Who does Marie have an argument with at the airport?

3. What does Agathe say about her leaving her family?

4. Who is the narrator's boss?

5. Why do the cops show up in Chapter 1?

(see the answer keys)

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