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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 are the names of Dominika Egorova's parents?

2. What does AVR refer to in the novel?

3. What does the word "krolik" translate to in English, according to the narrator in Chapter 9 (104)?

4. Where do both Nate and Dominika swim laps regularly in Chapter 10?

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

Short Essay Questions

1. What is a honey trap?

2. What exchange has been arranged in Chapter 19?

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

4. What are considered as different incentives for Dominika to become a double agent? What incentive is the one that works?

5. Who is Vladimir Putin and what role does he play in Red Sparrow?

6. What is the motivation behind Dominika's revealing her position at the SVR to Nate?

7. Who is Sergey Matorin and how is he described?

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

9. Why is Marta killed?

10. Who is Tom Forsyth? How is he described when introduced in Chapter 7?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Describe and discuss the structure of the SVR. How is the hierarchy of the organization described? What characters hold the most prominence in the SVR? What rivalries within the agency are explored?

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

Discuss the rivalries between the FBI and CIA that appear in Red Sparrow. What are the origins of these rivalries? How do they play out in the plot? Do you think that the rivalries presented in the text are indicative of true rivalries within these organizations? Why or why not?

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