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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 author had kicked up the MI-5 the previous year because their work had a spy named Colonel Bletchley in it?

2. Why was Christopher embarrassed about his father attending his birthday party?

3. What word from Francis's letter in Chapter 36 refers to a person with blondish, unruly hair?

4. What is Giles's last name?

5. Where did Beth take her decrypted report for safety in Chapter 63?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does Giles threaten Beth in Chapter 70?

2. What is revealed in Francis's letter to Mab in Chapter 36?

3. How does Beth know about the attack on Coventry? Why does she not say anything to Mab and Osla?

4. Why does Osla return Philip's insignia in Chapter 57?

5. Why does Mab go with Beth to a gynecologist in Chapter 53?

6. How is Beth's confrontation with her father described in Chapter 52?

7. What are the circumstances surrounding Beth's first time being intimate with Harry?

8. What are the circumstances surrounding Osla spending the night in Philip's room in Chapter 54?

9. How is Giles apprehended? What happens to him?

10. What code of Dilly's does Beth begin working on in Chapter 52? Why?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Describe and discuss three examples of irony in The Rose Code. What verbal irony is used in the novel, and why? How is dramatic irony used? What situational irony can be observed? Why are these examples significant to you?

Essay Topic 2

Analyze and discuss the character of Giles in The Rose Code. What are Giles's main objectives in the novel? Does he achieve those objectives? Why or why not? Would you consider Giles to be a protagonist or antagonist? Why?

Essay Topic 3

Discuss the progression of World War II. When did the Nazis come to power in Germany? How did Nazi power spread across Europe? When did the United States become involved in the war? Why?

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