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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. After Marie is dropped off by Will, she is met by a courier who locks her inside of what type of building?
(a) An apartment.
(b) An outhouse.
(c) A house.
(d) A shed.

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

3. In Chapter 9, Marie is getting ready to use what type of transportation to reach the site of her mission?
(a) A train.
(b) A car.
(c) A tram.
(d) A plane.

4. In what year does Chapter 2 take place?
(a) 1941.
(b) 1939.
(c) 1949.
(d) 1943.

5. Grace decides that it is her duty to return which items to their owner?
(a) Fingerprints.
(b) Recordings.
(c) Photographs.
(d) Handkerchiefs.

Short Answer Questions

1. Before the operatives become aware of Eleanor's presence, she hides behind what object?

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

3. At what age did Eleanor murder a Russian captain who had been paying for sex with her mother and eyeing her little sister pruriently?

4. Grace returns to Grand Central Station in Chapter 8 to find that what object has disappeared?

5. To find out more about the prospective job, Marie goes to "Number 64 Baker Street" (31) as instructed and asks for whom?

Short Essay Questions

1. Discuss the symbolism of Marie's butterfly locket necklace.

2. In what way does the theme of guilt arise within Chapter 8 in relation to Grace?

3. Discuss one theme present within the epigraph of The Lost Girls of Paris.

4. Name three traits the narrator of Chapter 2 attributes to Eleanor.

5. What is the setting of Chapter 5 and whose story is presented within its pages?

6. In what way is the theme of sacrifice depicted within Marie's account presented in Chapter 3?

7. From whose perspective is Chapter 1 presented and what does the reader learn about this character in the opening passages of the chapter?

8. What change does Marie see in her own character after Josie has been deployed?

9. Provide evidence for the conclusion that Eleanor learned to be ruthless very early in life.

10. What shocking discovery does Grace make at the end of Chapter 4?

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