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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 recipe concludes Chapter 15?

2. What word does "navoz" translate to in English in Chapter 9 (104)?

3. What is the Executive Action Department of the SVR referred to as in Chapter 4?

4. What is used to kill Marta in Chapter 15?

5. What color mantle does Dominika see when she meets Gable?

Short Essay Questions

1. Who pursues Nate in Chapter 1? How does he escape?

2. Who is Marta Yelenova and how is she described?

3. How is Dominika attacked at training school in Chapter 6? How does she respond?

4. What are Dominika's first perceptions of Korchnoi?

5. What does Dominika say she wants to do in the future during her meeting with Uncle Vanya in Chapter 5? What is his response?

6. What is the Kon Institute and how does Dominika feel about attending there?

7. Who are ARCHIE and VERONICA?

8. Who is Alexei Zyuganov and what position does he hold?

9. What is an SDR and what is its purpose?

10. What conflict emerges between the CIA and FBI in Chapter 19?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Discuss the different ways that author Jason Matthews employs irony in the novel. How is dramatic irony employed, and why is the narrative style of the novel important for this type of irony to occur? What situational irony is depicted? What are examples of verbal irony? What purpose does each example serve?

Essay Topic 2

Discuss the characters of Simon Benford, Marty Gable, and Tom Forsyth. What role does each of these characters play in the plot of the narrative? What are their relationships with each other and with Nate and Dominika like? Are these characters protagonists or antagonists in the story? Why?

Essay Topic 3

Discuss the narrative style of Red Sparrow. From what narrative point of view is the novel related? Why is this narrative perspective important? What aspects of the story would change if the narrative came from a different point of view?

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