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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Rachel listen to around a lit candle in her cell block?
(a) Some beautiful songs written by the women.
(b) A reading from the bible.
(c) Nazi propaganda.
(d) The stories of the horrors the women have endured.

2. Why is the winch wrapped in steel in Chapter 8?
(a) The low price of steel in Germany.
(b) A copper shortage.
(c) Steel is the strongest metal.
(d) It's conductivity.

3. What does Schorner provide Rachel with at the start of Chapter 23?
(a) Suggestions to keep her children from being taken.
(b) A photograph of Hitler.
(c) A bottle of whiskey.
(d) An escape route.

4. What does Hagan tell Rachel about Brandt in Chapter 19?
(a) He is a pederast.
(b) He is a British spy.
(c) He is related to Hagen.
(d) He is an alcoholic.

5. What caused the power to switch to the dead lines the men were working in Chapter 25?
(a) A coin fell in the transformer.
(b) One of McShane's men was a spy.
(c) A German soldier flipped a switch.
(d) A lightning strike or fallen limb.

Short Answer Questions

1. What message does Mark write to his mother in a letter?

2. Who is the photograph of that Mark finds in his grandfather's safe?

3. What is Anna too important to do, according to Hagan?

4. What does the Air Force Captain present Mark with?

5. What nationality is Jonas Stern?

Short Essay Questions

1. In Chapter 9, what does Mark think about while sitting in his lab in Oxford?

2. How does Mark earn Stern's admiration in Chapter 21?

3. Describe Mark's meeting with Smith in Chapter 22.

4. When Eisenhower refuses to endorse his plan, what does Churchill do?

5. Describe what the Shoemaker witnesses in Chapter 12.

6. Why does Mark think details of the mission are being kept from him?

7. Why does Mark write two letters in Chapter 14 and what do his letters say?

8. What do Smith and Stern discuss in Chapter 7?

9. Why does Stern believe Smith has an informant at the Totenhausen Camp?

10. What does Smith tell Stern about Mark McConnell?

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