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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 the word "chistilshchik" translate to in English, as indicated in Chapter 4 (52)?

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

3. What does Dominika translate the word "zalozhnica" to in English in Chapter 16 (206)?

4. Where are the SVR headquarters described in Chapter 2?

5. What are the elderly agents' codenames that work on Dominika's case in Chapter 11?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What are Dominika's first impressions of Forsyth and Gable? Where does she first meet them?

3. Who are ARCHIE and VERONICA?

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

5. What ended Dominika's ballet career? How did it affect her?

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

7. How is the training at Sparrow School described?

8. What is synesthesia and how does it factor into Red Sparrow?

9. What information is established regarding MARBLE in Chapter 1?

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Discuss the author's use of symbolism in Red Sparrow. What are some of the recurring symbols that appear throughout the narrative? What does each symbol represent? How do these symbols connect to the novel's themes?

Essay Topic 2

As a spy novel, author Jason Matthews makes a variety of uses of foreshadowing and red herrings. Describe examples of each and their effect. What events in the climax of the novel are foreshadowed? What red herrings led you astray in the reading? How?

Essay Topic 3

Define and discuss synesthesia and its depiction in Red Sparrow. What is a synesthete? How does synesthesia manifest in Dominika's character? In what ways does it benefit her?

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