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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. In what year did the KGB mount blanket surveillance on Colonel Oleg Penkovsky, according to the narrator in Chapter 38?

2. What recipe concludes Chapter 24?

3. What word from Chapter 24 refers to an assistant or follower?

4. Who was Nate's hand-to-hand combat instructor that he recalls in Chapter 25?

5. For whom did Clio Bavisotto play Chopin while her husband cracked a safe upstairs?

Short Essay Questions

1. How is the apartment of Jennifer Santini described?

2. What information is Dominika instructed to pass to Egorov in Chapter 37?

3. What is the secret swap that Dominika performs in Chapter 20?

4. Where is Electric Boat Works and why does Nate visit there?

5. How is Korchnoi's arrest described? Where is he taken?

6. What is the plan for Korchnoi's retirement?

7. What is revealed about Zyuganov's character in Chapter 30?

8. How does dramatic irony come into play in Chapter 36?

9. Who is Simon Benford? What is his position?

10. What information does the reader learn from Egorov's meeting with Putin in Chapter 26?

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

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?

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