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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 Cammie comment about the security measures in the sub-levels?

2. How does Rachel feel about what Townsend did?

3. What does Zach say about why the Circle wants Cammie?

4. What do the girls find when they return to the surface?

5. What is Cammie not allowing herself to do at the beginning of Chapter 19?

Short Essay Questions

1. How do Zach and the girls get to the fence around Blackthorne and what does each operative do?

2. What is it like in the van on the ride back to the school and what do the girls talk about when they get back to the school?

3. How does Cammie figure out what Solomon said after talking to Mr. Smith?

4. Where does Townsend take Cammie and her friends, why does he say they are going there and what does Cammie tell Rebecca?

5. What does Solomon say to Cammie at the park and what does she say to him?

6. What does Cammie do with the journal at first and what happens when she does it?

7. What happens when the girls return upstairs?

8. What does Zach tell the Gallagher girls about Blackthorne and who arrives when they are all talking?

9. How does Cammie get away from Zach's mother?

10. What is the late-night plan executed by Cammie and her three fellow operatives?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Choose one of the following to discuss:

1. Choose two significant symbols and trace and analyze their appearance in Only the Good Spy Young. Are these universal symbols? Would they be understood in any culture? Are there other symbols that would portray the same idea? What are they? Why do you think Carter chooses the symbols he does?

2. Choose two important metaphors and trace and analyze their appearance in the novel. Are these universal metaphors? Would they be understood in any culture? Are there other metaphors that would portray the same idea? What are they? Why do you think Carter chooses the metaphors she does?

3. Discuss Carter's use (or lack ) of literary device (such as foreshadowing, clifthangers, deux ex machina, etc...), and how they add or detract from the story. Does Carter use too many or too little literary techniques? State which of the five major elements of fiction the literary device is related to (style, character, plot, setting, theme).

Essay Topic 2

Discuss the following:

1. What is foreshadow? How many incidences of foreshadow are in Only the Good Spy Young? How does foreshadow contribute to a book's suspense?

2. Discuss an example of foreshadow in Only the Good Spy Young including why you believe it is foreshadow. Include examples from the book and your own life to illustrate your answer.

3. How do you think most people react to uncertainty in their lives? Use examples from Only the Good Spy Young and your own live to support your opinion.

Essay Topic 3

Often, authors will write about "what they know," and sometimes knowing a little about the author makes the books more interesting. Discuss the following:

1. Research and give a brief biographical sketch of Ally Carter.

2. What in Carter's background may have helped him in writing Only the Good Spy Young? What may have influenced the way he depicts various characters and scenes?

3. Do you think there is always some of the author's own life in his/her novels? Why or why not? Give examples.

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