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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 Pop say about Slater?

2. What does Marie think is the most revolutionary thing she can do?

3. What does Thomas like to do in the mornings?

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

5. Who grabs Marie's gun?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. Where and how does Thomas die?

3. What does Marie do to Slater in the middle of the night?

4. What secret does Slater reveal to Marie at dinner?

5. What does being in Burkina remind Marie of?

6. What happens when Marie is in the desert?

7. What does Marie discover about Blaise Compaore?

8. Who makes it clear they have never held a gun?

9. What does Marie discover about Thomas in the village where she rests for day?

10. Who wins the election that takes place at the university?

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

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?

Essay Topic 3

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?

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