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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 is Mark provided with because of his family's heritage in Chapter 24?

2. What has Mark been pressured by Brigadier Duff Smith to do over the years?

3. What does Mark tell his wife Susan in the letter he writes her?

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

5. What does Mark find a piece of in his grandfather's safe?

Short Essay Questions

1. Describe what the Shoemaker witnesses in Chapter 12.

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

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

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

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

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

7. Who is Randazzo, and why does he visit Mark?

8. Describe Rachel's interactions with Schorner in Chapter 23.

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

10. Who is Mark McConnell in 1944, and what is his involvement with Brigadier Smith?

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 role does race and nationality play in "Black Cross"? What different nationalities are represented and by which characters? How is this important?

Essay Topic 3

Which characters are present in the novel as the protagonist and the antagonist? Why are these characters labeled in this way?

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