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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. Where does Marie take Thomas for dinner?

2. Where does the narrator work?

3. What is Marie's favorite thing to do in the summer growing up?

4. Who runs away from Agathe's house?

5. Where does the narrator drop off the kids in the first chapter?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Agathe tell the boys about stars?

2. Why is Marie ashamed of the memory of Helene's 13th birthday?

3. What happens at Marie's home in Connecticut?

4. What happens when Marie takes Agathe to the airport?

5. Who tells Helene all about spies?

6. What job does Ross offer to Marie?

7. What happens at Helene's wake?

8. What does Thomas say about books?

9. What does Marie want Agathe to do for the boys?

10. Who wants to be a spy when they are a child?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Write an essay about how Marie's relationship with her mother changes throughout the novel. What event(s) stimulate the change(s)?

Essay Topic 2

Write an essay in which you analyze how Marie's experience in Africa affects her life in a significant way. What about her experience there changes her forever?

Essay Topic 3

The story is told from Marie's point of view, written in the form of journals that she intends for her sons to read in the event that she is killed on a mission. Analyze the author's choice to write the story this way -- how does this choice affect the plot and the reader?

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