City Spies Flashcards
What is the main character’s name?
Sara Maria Martinez
What is Sara’s code name?
Brooklyn
Where do the City Spies live?
FARM
What does FARM stand for?
The Foundation for Atmospheric Research and Monitoring
Who is the director of FARM?
Monty
Who got kicked out of FARM?
Charlotte
What is Sara good at?
Hacking
Who recruited Rio, Kat, Paris, Sydney, and Brooklyn?
Mother
Who is Mother’s wife?
Clementine
What hotel hosts M16 agents?
The Three Lions
Where is The Three Lions?
Paris
Who are Mother’s children?
Robert and Annie
Who is Beny (formerly Ben)?
The supercomputer that lives in the priest hole
Why is Sarah in jail?
For hacking into a bank
What does Mother say about Sarah to make the other agents jealous?
Sarah is a natural who is already better than the others
How do the agents choose their codenames?
They use the place where they’re from
Why was Sarah chosen for FARM?
Someone quit and they needed a hacker
What is the underworld company that Mother is trying to beat?
Umbra
Why was Charlotte kicked out of farm?
She was laundering money
What is the name of Sara’s public defender?
Randall Stubbs
Why is Sara going to court in the beginning of the book?
She hacked into the computer network for the juvenile justice system of New York City
According to multiple counselors and school psychologists, what does Sara struggle with?
Controlling her temper
What tip did a counselor give to Sara to help her calm down when she’s angry?
Take a deep breath and count to ten
What is Sara’s potential sentence for hacking into the city’s juvenile justice system network?
Two and a half years in juvie and banned from using computers
What does a computer being “Bespoke” mean?
It has been tailor-made to the specific needs of an individual
What name does Sara type into the computer to replace Randall Stubbs?
Gerald Anderson
How did the foster parents punish Gabriel when he wet the bed?
They locked him in the hall closet
Why did Sara hack into the juvenile justice system network?
Her foster parents were treating her badly
What name does Gerald Anderson usually go by?
Mother
Why was Emily arrested?
Shoplifting
What is the name of the judge in Sara’s case?
Lyman J. Pancake
How does Sara plead?
Guilty
What does Sara notice on Mother’s arm during the hearing?
Scars
Where does Mother say the scars came from?
A fire
Where does Mother tell the judge that Sara should be sent?
Crunchem Hall
What does Mother pretend is evidence in court?
A menu from a deli
Who does Mother tell the judge in is charge of Crunchem Hall?
Trunchbull
How long will Sara be in Mother’s custody
6 years, until she turns 18
Where does Mother get the names of Crunchem Hall and Warden Trunchbull?
The book Matilda
What does Mother call a police car?
A panda car
Who wrote the book Matilda?
Roald Dahl
In addition to writing, what other job did Roald Dahl have?
He was a spy
Who is Mother’s favorite author?
Roald Dahl
Who does Mother work for?
The British Secret Intelligence Service, or M16
What is the British Secret Intelligence Service also called?
M16
What name does Emily go by?
Sydney
Where is Sydney from?
Australia
What is the name of the new school Sara will be enrolled in?
Kinloch Academy
Where is Kinloch Academy?
Scotland
What famous figure’s mother was born in Brooklyn?
Winston Churchill
What is Monty’s full name?
Dr. Alexandra Montgomery
What names do the kids at FARM go by?
The places where they’re from
Where is Kat from?
Kathmandu
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
What is a nugget?
Something to provide a distraction during a mission
Who are Sara’s most recent foster parents?
Leonard and Deborah Clark
What does Sara need to retrieve from her room at the Clarks’ house?
A shoebox full of important items
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
What does Sara do to the Clarks when they’re on the roof?
She locks them outside
What does Mother do for the Clarks’ other foster children?
He used police contacts to get them assigned to better homes
On which operation did Mother receive scars from a fire?
Operation Gumdrop
What is Umbra?
A global crime syndicate
Who is the leader of Umbra?
Le Fantome
What does Le Fantome translate to in English?
The Ghost
Where did Operation Gumdrop take place?
Paris
How did Mother try to lure Le Fantome to the trap?
With 3 forged Monet paintings
What does Paris like to play?
Chess
What does the boy hiding in Paris call himself?
Le Roi du Paris, or The King of Paris
Where does Mother believe Paris’s accent is from?
Central Africa
Who is Mother’s wife?
Clementine
During the fire, what does Mother realize that Clementine has done?
Betrayed M16 to join forces with Umbra
Who rescues Mother from the fire?
Paris
Where is Paris from?
Rwanda
What can Paris not get used to about living in Scotland?
The weather
What are Mother’s little sayings called?
Motherisms
What does the Motherism “You can’t look out if you stand out” mean?
An essential element of surveillance is disappearing into the background
Where does Kat hide at the airport to spy on Sara?
A coffee shop near customs and immigration
What does Kat tend to notice?
Patterns
What subject is Kat good at?
Math
What is Sara carrying at the airport when she first arrives in Scotland?
Sydney’s purple rucksack
What does RV stand for?
Rendesvouz point
What kind of money is used in Scotland?
Pounds
Which of the FARM kids is the youngest?
Rio
What does Sara do at the department store that surprises Rio?
She steals a watch while she’s trying them on
Where does Sara meet Mother and Sydney when she arrives in Scotland?
The upper level of the Scottish National Gallery
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
What are Mother’s side jobs?
Museum consultant and caretaker of a small airfield
Where did Clementine go after the fire?
She disappeared with her and Mother’s kids, Annie and Robert
What was Clementine’s specialty at M16?
Vanishing assets
When was the grand opening of FARM?
The same day as Queen Elizabeth’s coronation
Who inherited the property that became FARM?
William Maxwell, aka Big Bill
Why did M16 hire Big Bill?
The FARM house was perfectly situated to study the Soviet Union
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
How does Kat protect her bedroom at FARM?
With a padlock
What is inside Sara’s shoebox?
Photos, a few small objects, and a snowglobe
Where did Sara get her snowglobe?
It was a gift from her abuela
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
What is a Stevenston screen?
A box that holds weather instruments
What is a cobbler?
A spy who specializes in making false documents to create a cover identity
Where was Sara born?
Puerto Rico
Instead of a watch, what did Sara actually steal from the department store?
An empty box
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
Who lived in Sara’s room before her?
Charlotte
What is a keylogger?
A device that copies everything someone types on a computer
