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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 does Marie realize Ross wants her to do?

2. How does Marie navigate herself outside of the city?

3. What does Marie tell Pop to be careful about?

4. Who hits Marie on the head with something metal?

5. Who is inside the SSI construction?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does being in Burkina remind Marie of?

2. What does Slater tell Marie when she shows up to his office for the first time?

3. What is Marie's main form of transportation in Africa?

4. Who is Nicole, and how does she speak?

5. Why does Marie hate Ed Ross after Thomas's death?

6. What does Slater tell Marie at a celebratory dinner?

7. What does Marie tell Robbie when he asks why she became a Fed?

8. What does Marie tell Thomas at Mole National Park?

9. Why does Marie fly to Martinique in 1987?

10. Who does Marie call while she is abroad?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Write an essay in which you analyze whether Marie is a reliable narrator or not. Include evidence from the text to support your assertions.

Essay Topic 2

Write an essay in which you analyze Marie's decision to become a Fed. Why does she become a Fed, and what does she begin to realize about this decision as the story unfolds? Use examples from the text to support your ideas.

Essay Topic 3

Write an essay in which you analyze Marie's anxieties about war. In what ways does the Cold War shape and inform that inherent fear? Use examples from the text to support your ideas.

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