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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 does Marie not talk to for a decade after Helene's death?

2. Who is crying in the first chapter?

3. Who wants to be a spy growing up?

4. What does Helene tell Marie she is practicing the summer she is 12?

5. What is on the narrator's clothes in the first chapter?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What does Thomas say about books?

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

4. What happens when Marie invites Thomas to her place for a nightcap?

5. Who is the first person Marie understood to be a spy?

6. Who tells Helene all about spies?

7. What happens at Lenox Lounge with Thomas?

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

9. Where does Marie take Thomas for dinner?

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Throughout her mission in Africa, Marie is made very aware of her status as an American, despite feeling that in the U.S., she feels black before she feels American. Write an essay in which you compare and contrast Marie's notions of her American status while she is in Africa and the U.S.

Essay Topic 2

Write an essay about Marie's relationship to Robbie, her high school boyfriend. Why does Marie consider Robbie to be one of her closest friends, even as an adult?

Essay Topic 3

Write an essay in which you analyze Marie's role as a mother. In what ways does motherhood change her?

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