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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Marie do when she sees Eleanor for the first time since she was recruited six weeks prior?
(a) She waves.
(b) She looks away.
(c) She shakes hands.
(d) She shouts.

2. What is the full name of the Director of Special Operations Executive known "only as 'the Director' to everyone at headquarters" (19)?
(a) Michael Stockland.
(b) Mark Smeaton.
(c) Gregory Winslow.
(d) Henry Higgins.

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

4. The narrator reveals in Chapter 2 that Eleanor has worked for SOE since shortly after their inception. How long ago was that?
(a) 6 years.
(b) 3 years.
(c) 3 months.
(d) 2 years.

5. In which year does Chapter 10 take place while portraying Grace's perspective?
(a) 1933.
(b) 1941.
(c) 1959.
(d) 1946.

6. In what sort of profession does Grace's boss Frankie work?
(a) Public relations.
(b) Law.
(c) Education.
(d) Medicine.

7. What kind of skills are the operatives learning in Chapter 6 as Eleanor assesses their strengths?
(a) Building weapons.
(b) Writing in Morse code.
(c) Spying.
(d) Grappling.

8. Chapter 4 returns to portraying Grace's perspective after how much time has passed?
(a) 10 days.
(b) 45 minutes.
(c) 30 days.
(d) 15 minutes.

9. Marie recalls receiving her butterfly-shaped locket on which occasion?
(a) On the day of her daughter Tess's birth.
(b) On her wedding day.
(c) On the day of her First Communion.
(d) On the day of her cousin Tess's wedding.

10. One of Frankie's clients featured in Chapter 4 spent two years in which concentration camp?
(a) Bergin-Belsen.
(b) Auschwitz.
(c) Buchenwald.
(d) Dachau.

11. How many months have passed since Eleanor presented Marie with "the option of giving up and going home" (95)?
(a) 1.
(b) 6.
(c) 12.
(d) 3.

12. What location does Grace visit after her phone call yields no results in Chapter 10?
(a) The British consulate.
(b) The bookshop.
(c) The library.
(d) The bank.

13. From which year does Grace's story originate in Chapter 1 and in subsequent chapters?
(a) 1940.
(b) 1946.
(c) 1951.
(d) 1939.

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

15. Marie is scheduled to retake a test to prove mastery in which class in Chapter 7?
(a) Radio operating.
(b) Speaking French.
(c) Spying.
(d) Using French mannerisms.

Short Answer Questions

1. In Chapter 9, Marie is getting ready to use what type of transportation to reach the site of her mission?

2. In Chapter 1, Grace removes an envelope full of which objects from the suitcase she finds?

3. When Grace wonders in Chapter 10 if her experience at Grand Central Station had been a dream, the sight of which objects convinces her otherwise?

4. Josie tells Marie that in all, there have been how many women operatives working as radio operatives?

5. Marie believes that something "within [her] had changed" after which character "had deployed" (95)?

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