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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. How do Nate and Benford travel to the area of the Electric Boat Shipyard in Chapter 25?

2. Where is the Electric Boat Shipyard located?

3. Where is the hidden fake manual that Dominika replaces the real one with during the hotel exchanged in Chapter 20?

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

5. When does Gable tell Dominika they would see her again as they set out for the swap on the bridge in Chapter 42?

Short Essay Questions

1. Who is Stephanie Boucher? What is her position? What are her motivations?

2. What does Putin remark about Athens and Dominika in Chapter 38?

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

4. What are the details of the canary trap enacted by Egorov?

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

6. What is Nate's new assignment in Chapter 22?

7. What happens as a result of the FBI's actions in Chapter 20?

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

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

10. How does the conflict with Matorin play out in Chapter 37?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Author Jason Matthews, who is a former CIA agent himself, includes a great deal of spy jargon and explanations of tradecraft in Red Sparrow. Discuss some of these tradecraft maneuvers and how they play out. What is a canary trap? What is a fishhook? What is an SDR?

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

Analyze and discuss the character of Dominka Egorova in Red Sparrow. What are Dominika's objectives in the novel? What obstacles does she face? How does she overcome those obstacles? How does Dominika's character evolve in the story?

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