Code Name Verity

Multiple Choice and Long Answer questions create ideal opportunities for whole-book review, unit exam, or summative assessments.

Multiple Choice

1. In Chapter 1, which of the following is NOT a form of torture that Verity endures at the hands of the Nazis?

A) She is forced to refrain from sleep for multiple, consecutive days.

B) She is burned with cigarettes.

C) She is tied to a chair with an iron bar up her back for three days.

D) She is hosed in the face with a high-pressure stream of water.

2. Why is Verity hated by the other prisoners who are being held by the Nazis?

A) She is given preferential treatment by the SS officers.

B) She is the daughter of a crooked Parisian politician.

C) She agrees to collaborate with her Nazi captors.

D) She snitched on a well-loved member of the Resistance.

3. How does Julie typically wear her hair?

A) Smoothed into a chignon pinned two inches above her collar

B) Wrapped into a headscarf and tucked into her collar

C) Parted in the center and folded into a neat braid

D) Tucked behind her ears but otherwise hanging loose around her face

4. To what pub does Maddie lead Julie to help her learn to navigate and improve her sense of direction?

A) The Blue Boy

B) The Green Man

C) The Red Baron

D) The White Knight

5. What special wartime organization does Maddie enter around the time that Julie is taken into the Special Operations Executive?

A) The Special Air Service

B) The Air Transport Auxiliary

C) The Long Range Desert Group

D) Force 136

6. What task within the prison system is Julie given that allows her to learn more about von Linden’s interrogation methods?

A) She becomes a maid and gains access to all rooms, including von Linden’s personal quarters.

B) She becomes a librarian and is asked to categorize numerous classified documents related to interrogation.

C) She becomes a translator and translates von Linden’s interrogations into French for Nazi records.

D) She becomes a priest’s assistant and is able to read confessions by von Linden, confessing a sense of guilt and repentance to God.

7. What classic work by Goethe does von Linden have a literary conversation with Julie about?

A) Elective Affinities

B) Italian Journey

C) Prometheus

D) Faust

8. Which of the following is the most likely reason why Wein does not dwell on the budding romance between Maddie and Jamie?

A) Wein wants to keep the focus of the story mainly on Julie.

B) Wein wants the novel primarily to honor and uplift female friendships.

C) Wein is emphasizing that war often leads to distrust between men and women.

D) Wein is foreshadowing that the mirror image of Maddie (Julie) will never find love.

9. Julie uses a false identity in her work as an interrogator for the secret service who exposes double agents. What is the name and job of Julie’s false identity?

A) Ellie Setter, a German chef

B) Eva Seiler, a German interpretation liaison officer

C) Emma Snyder, a German meter maid

D) Enya Silke, a German nurse

10. During Julie and Maddie’s flight into France with Maddie at the helm, their plane is set ablaze. How do they put the fire out?

A) Maddie puts the plane into a dive, which blows the fire out.

B) Julie throws a military-grade fire blanket over the blaze.

C) Maddie steers the plane into a rainstorm, which puts out the flames.

D) Julie uses a bag of salt from their rations to snuff out the fire.

11. What words does Julie repeat over and over again to emphasize that she told the truth?

A) A prayer her father taught her

B) Her mother’s address

C) Her full legal name

D) A French pledge of loyalty

12. Why does von Linden’s boss (Nikolaus Ferber) threaten von Linden with execution?

A) Von Linden is discovered to be smuggling funds to Julie’s family.

B) Von Linden is hesitant to send Julie to the Natzweiler-Struthof camp.

C) Von Linden has fallen in love with Julie.

D) Von Linden refuses to have Julie’s beautiful blonde hair shorn off.

13. What language does Mitraillette’s family, originally from Alsace, speak fluently?

A) Dutch

B) Polish

C) Italian

D) German

14. When the Damask circuit attempts to sabotage a transfer of prisoners headed to a concentration camp in northeast France, they quickly discover that the Nazis are more ruthless than the Resistance. What happens that proves this?

A) The Nazis shoot two prisoners for every one of their guards who is killed.

B) The Nazis maim even women and children in their offense against the Resistance.

C) One Nazi guard ignores a wound in his shoulder to ensure a prisoner is killed.

D) The Nazis laugh and smile as they carry out their violence against the prisoners.

15. What cause of death does the Bloody Machiavellian Intelligence Officer who hears Maddie’s confession ensure is listed in Julie’s official record?

A) Unknown

B) Killed in action

C) Asphyxiation

D) Blunt force trauma to the head

Long Answer

Compose a response of 2-3 sentences, incorporating text details to support your response.

1. How do readers of Code Name Verity participate in Julie’s espionage via underlined, coded messages throughout the text? What does this say about The Nature of Truth?

2. At the end of the novel, when Maddie accidentally meets her nemesis, von Linden, how does she respond? Describe how this climactic scene ties into the overarching themes of the novel.