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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. Whose gun does Maddie borrow in Ormaie?

2. Who gives the final orders for Julie's fate?

3. What does Queenie do after telling Maddie about her night when the German almost choked her?

4. How does Maddie spend her first several weeks in Ormaie?

5. Who does not want Maddie to fly the mission to France in Part III?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Jamie do when Paul says something inappropriate and disrespectful of Maddie?

2. What happens when Queenie and the girl who is French Resistance are taken out to the courtyard in Part III?

3. Why does Queenie take the time to tie down all the cargo in the plane before parachuting out of it?

4. What happens to Maddie's plane after she crash-lands in Ormaie?

5. What are Nikolas Ferber's instructions regarding Julie?

6. What is the last phrase that Julie writes in her materials while she is being held by the Germans in Part IV?

7. Why does Queenie wait until the end of the flight to reveal to Maddie who she is in Part III?

8. Why does Von Linden order Queenie's mouth to be swabbed with carbolic acid?

9. What does Queenie see in the pictures that the Gestapo give her?

10. What happens to Maddie's and Queenie's plane in Part III when they fly to France?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

How does Maddie begin to gain confidence in her own abilities as a pilot and then later as an ad-hoc SOE operative? Write an essay explaining your answers, citing specific references to the text to help support your conclusions.

Essay Topic 2

How does Maddie deal with the guilt of having killed her best friend, and which characters help soothe Maddie's conscience most effectively? Write an essay explaining your answers, citing specific references to the text to help support your conclusions.

Essay Topic 3

How does Maddie's perception of Julie change from the time she first meets Julie to the end of the novel, and what factors, events and/or conversations contribute to this change?

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