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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 Mark do to confirm his brother's death?

2. Who does Mark receive a mysterious phone call from in Chapter 14?

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

4. What is in the intelligence folder Stern gives to the Allies?

5. What does Eisenhower do with the plan the team comes up with?

Short Essay Questions

1. What do Mark and Jonas suspect about Brigadier Smith in Chapters 10 and 11?

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

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

4. What are Smith's instructions to Stern in Chapter 24?

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

6. What does Smith learn about Stern in Chapter 6?

7. In Chapter 17, what does Stern learn about the mission from Smith?

8. What does Mark think about Sarin gas?

9. Who is Sir Donald Cameron and how does Mark feel about him?

10. What does the telegram say that Mark receives in Chapter 10?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

What characteristics of Jonas Stern betray the persona he strives for, and how do they perpetuate it? Provide examples.

Essay Topic 2

What traits do the surviving prisoners in this story display as a whole, and how do you think these traits benefit their ability to survive?

Essay Topic 3

How does the first person point-of-view enhance and inhibit the story? How would the novel be different if a different point of view were used?

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