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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What location does Grace avoid at all costs, since she associates it with Tom's death?
(a) The library.
(b) The train station.
(c) The lumber mill.
(d) The military base.

2. In which year does Chapter 8 take place while portraying Grace's perspective from New York City?
(a) 1941.
(b) 1946.
(c) 1959.
(d) 1929.

3. When Chapter 5 opens by portraying Marie's perspective, she is in which country?
(a) Wales.
(b) Scotland.
(c) Ireland.
(d) England.

4. In what manner is Marie awakened on her first morning at the "fog-shrouded manor" (56) where she will undergo training?
(a) She is thrown out of bed.
(b) A reveille is played.
(c) She is doused with cold water.
(d) A fire alarm goes off.

5. Grace is living in a rooming house on the edge of which feature of London?
(a) Hell's Kitchen.
(b) Piccadilly Circus.
(c) Buckingham Palace.
(d) Big Ben.

6. What part of her body does Marie hurt during her first run with the other operatives?
(a) Her knee.
(b) Her elbow.
(c) Her wrist.
(d) Her ankle.

7. Before the operatives become aware of Eleanor's presence, she hides behind what object?
(a) A windmill.
(b) A shed.
(c) A boulder.
(d) A tree.

8. In what month does Chapter 6 take place?
(a) December.
(b) May.
(c) March.
(d) June.

9. Grace's boss Frankie is described with the use of all but which of the following terms?
(a) Stern.
(b) Friendly.
(c) Approaching 50.
(d) Lifelong bachelor.

10. When Grace decides to take action in regard to the deceased woman associated with the missing suitcase, whom does she call?
(a) The deceased woman's sister.
(b) The police.
(c) A lawyer.
(d) The deceased woman's mother.

11. Marie repeatedly asks the courier to take her to see which character in Chapter 9?
(a) Will.
(b) Josie.
(c) Tom.
(d) Vesper.

12. When Grace finds a particular object missing in Chapter 8, whom does she ask for help?
(a) A passenger.
(b) A receptionist.
(c) A porter.
(d) A policeman.

13. Chapter 3 portrays events from Marie's perspective from London in which year?
(a) 1940.
(b) 1944.
(c) 1951.
(d) 1936.

14. At what time of day does Eleanor arrive at her destination at the beginning of Chapter 6?
(a) Late afternoon.
(b) Dawn.
(c) Dusk.
(d) Midnight.

15. Marie has been at Arisaig House for nearly how many weeks by the time Chapter 7 opens?
(a) 7.
(b) 5.
(c) 9.
(d) 3.

Short Answer Questions

1. Chapter 9 presents events from Marie's perspective while she works in which country?

2. Whose idea is it to deploy women operatives within SOE in the first place?

3. How many months have passed since Eleanor presented Marie with "the option of giving up and going home" (95)?

4. Grace has been a widow for what length of time in Chapter 4?

5. Marie uses a book of poetry written by which poet to calm herself in Chapter 3?

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