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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 the election take place?

2. What is the name of Slater's secretary?

3. Where does Marie go to from the desert?

4. What does Marie do while in Paris?

5. What does Marie feel she needs to do to protect her boys?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Marie realize about her work with Ross and Slater at dinner?

2. Where is Thomas's body found?

3. Why did Helene go back to New York, according to Agathe?

4. What happens when Marie is in the desert?

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

6. What does Marie discover about her pregnancy 12 weeks in?

7. What happens to Marie after she gives birth?

8. Where and how does Thomas die?

9. Where does Marie first see Thomas while in his country?

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

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.

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

Write an essay analyzing how the author uses characters and behaviors to develop and strengthen the theme of isolation.

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