City Spies Flashcards
1
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What is the main character’s name?
A
Sara Maria Martinez
2
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What is Sara’s code name?
A
Brooklyn
3
Q
Where do the City Spies live?
A
FARM
4
Q
What does FARM stand for?
A
The Foundation for Atmospheric Research and Monitoring
5
Q
Who is the director of FARM?
A
Monty
6
Q
Who got kicked out of FARM?
A
Charlotte
7
Q
What is Sara good at?
A
Hacking
8
Q
Who recruited Rio, Kat, Paris, Sydney, and Brooklyn?
A
Mother
9
Q
Who is Mother’s wife?
A
Clementine
10
Q
What hotel hosts M16 agents?
A
The Three Lions
11
Q
Where is The Three Lions?
A
Paris
12
Q
Who are Mother’s children?
A
Robert and Annie
13
Q
Who is Beny (formerly Ben)?
A
The supercomputer that lives in the priest hole
14
Q
Why is Sarah in jail?
A
For hacking into a bank
15
Q
What does Mother say about Sarah to make the other agents jealous?
A
Sarah is a natural who is already better than the others
16
Q
How do the agents choose their codenames?
A
They use the place where they’re from
17
Q
Why was Sarah chosen for FARM?
A
Someone quit and they needed a hacker
18
Q
What is the underworld company that Mother is trying to beat?
A
Umbra
19
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Why was Charlotte kicked out of farm?
A
She was laundering money
20
Q
What is the name of Sara’s public defender?
A
Randall Stubbs
21
Q
Why is Sara going to court in the beginning of the book?
A
She hacked into the computer network for the juvenile justice system of New York City
22
Q
According to multiple counselors and school psychologists, what does Sara struggle with?
A
Controlling her temper
23
Q
What tip did a counselor give to Sara to help her calm down when she’s angry?
A
Take a deep breath and count to ten
24
Q
What is Sara’s potential sentence for hacking into the city’s juvenile justice system network?
A
Two and a half years in juvie and banned from using computers
25
What does a computer being "Bespoke" mean?
It has been tailor-made to the specific needs of an individual
26
What name does Sara type into the computer to replace Randall Stubbs?
Gerald Anderson
27
How did the foster parents punish Gabriel when he wet the bed?
They locked him in the hall closet
28
Why did Sara hack into the juvenile justice system network?
Her foster parents were treating her badly
29
What name does Gerald Anderson usually go by?
Mother
30
Why was Emily arrested?
Shoplifting
31
What is the name of the judge in Sara's case?
Lyman J. Pancake
32
How does Sara plead?
Guilty
33
What does Sara notice on Mother's arm during the hearing?
Scars
34
Where does Mother say the scars came from?
A fire
35
Where does Mother tell the judge that Sara should be sent?
Crunchem Hall
36
What does Mother pretend is evidence in court?
A menu from a deli
37
Who does Mother tell the judge in is charge of Crunchem Hall?
Trunchbull
38
How long will Sara be in Mother's custody
6 years, until she turns 18
39
Where does Mother get the names of Crunchem Hall and Warden Trunchbull?
The book Matilda
40
What does Mother call a police car?
A panda car
41
Who wrote the book Matilda?
Roald Dahl
42
In addition to writing, what other job did Roald Dahl have?
He was a spy
43
Who is Mother's favorite author?
Roald Dahl
44
Who does Mother work for?
The British Secret Intelligence Service, or M16
45
What is the British Secret Intelligence Service also called?
M16
46
What name does Emily go by?
Sydney
47
Where is Sydney from?
Australia
48
What is the name of the new school Sara will be enrolled in?
Kinloch Academy
49
Where is Kinloch Academy?
Scotland
50
What famous figure's mother was born in Brooklyn?
Winston Churchill
51
What is Monty's full name?
Dr. Alexandra Montgomery
52
What names do the kids at FARM go by?
The places where they're from
53
Where is Kat from?
Kathmandu
54
What is an alpha test?
Every mission has a team leader called an alpha, who comes up with a plan and runs the operation; to prepare for that, an alpha test is run as practice
55
What is a nugget?
Something to provide a distraction during a mission
56
Who are Sara's most recent foster parents?
Leonard and Deborah Clark
57
What does Sara need to retrieve from her room at the Clarks' house?
A shoebox full of important items
58
How does Mother get the Clarks out of their house so Sara can get inside?
He tells them that Sara has hidden money on the roof, and they goes to look for it
59
What does Sara do to the Clarks when they're on the roof?
She locks them outside
60
What does Mother do for the Clarks' other foster children?
He used police contacts to get them assigned to better homes
61
On which operation did Mother receive scars from a fire?
Operation Gumdrop
62
What is Umbra?
A global crime syndicate
63
Who is the leader of Umbra?
Le Fantome
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What does Le Fantome translate to in English?
The Ghost
65
Where did Operation Gumdrop take place?
Paris
66
How did Mother try to lure Le Fantome to the trap?
With 3 forged Monet paintings
67
What does Paris like to play?
Chess
68
What does the boy hiding in Paris call himself?
Le Roi du Paris, or The King of Paris
69
Where does Mother believe Paris's accent is from?
Central Africa
70
Who is Mother's wife?
Clementine
71
During the fire, what does Mother realize that Clementine has done?
Betrayed M16 to join forces with Umbra
72
Who rescues Mother from the fire?
Paris
73
Where is Paris from?
Rwanda
74
What can Paris not get used to about living in Scotland?
The weather
75
What are Mother's little sayings called?
Motherisms
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What does the Motherism "You can't look out if you stand out" mean?
An essential element of surveillance is disappearing into the background
77
Where does Kat hide at the airport to spy on Sara?
A coffee shop near customs and immigration
78
What does Kat tend to notice?
Patterns
79
What subject is Kat good at?
Math
80
What is Sara carrying at the airport when she first arrives in Scotland?
Sydney's purple rucksack
81
What does RV stand for?
Rendesvouz point
82
What kind of money is used in Scotland?
Pounds
83
Which of the FARM kids is the youngest?
Rio
84
What does Sara do at the department store that surprises Rio?
She steals a watch while she's trying them on
85
Where does Sara meet Mother and Sydney when she arrives in Scotland?
The upper level of the Scottish National Gallery
86
Why does Mother say that M16 is okay with him having side jobs?
As far as M16 knows, Mother died in the fire--they don't know that Paris rescued him
87
What are Mother's side jobs?
Museum consultant and caretaker of a small airfield
88
Where did Clementine go after the fire?
She disappeared with her and Mother's kids, Annie and Robert
89
What was Clementine's specialty at M16?
Vanishing assets
90
When was the grand opening of FARM?
The same day as Queen Elizabeth's coronation
91
Who inherited the property that became FARM?
William Maxwell, aka Big Bill
92
Why did M16 hire Big Bill?
The FARM house was perfectly situated to study the Soviet Union
93
What is the FARM Fellows program?
The cover story for the FARM kids--a program that brings disadvantaged youth from around the world to become the next generation of climate scientists
94
How does Kat protect her bedroom at FARM?
With a padlock
95
What is inside Sara's shoebox?
Photos, a few small objects, and a snowglobe
96
Where did Sara get her snowglobe?
It was a gift from her abuela
97
Why do Rio, Paris, and Kat plot ways to keep Sara off the team when she first arrives?
They don't trust her because she stole the watch at the department store
98
What is a Stevenston screen?
A box that holds weather instruments
99
What is a cobbler?
A spy who specializes in making false documents to create a cover identity
100
Where was Sara born?
Puerto Rico
101
Instead of a watch, what did Sara actually steal from the department store?
An empty box
102
What items does Sara find in her desk drawer at FARM?
A tube of lip gloss, paper clips, rubber bands, a pencil, a small pad of paper, and a flash drive
103
Who lived in Sara's room before her?
Charlotte
104
What is a keylogger?
A device that copies everything someone types on a computer
