Code Name Verity

Part 1, Chapters 1-4

Reading Check

1. The German SS officer who is holding her prisoner as a spy (Chapter 1)

2. A hotel (Chapter 1)

3. February 1939 (Chapter 2)

4. 18 years old (Chapter 3)

5. Scottish (Chapter 4)

Short Answer

1. It begins with the geographical location where Verity wrote the entry, followed by the date when she wrote it and then Verity’s initials. In the case of Chapter 1, it is written in the (fictional) French city of Ormaie, on November 8, 1943; Verity’s initials, JB, stand for Julie Beaufort-Stuart. (Chapters 1-4)

Part 1, Chapters 5-8

Reading Check

1. The cook (Chapter 5)

2. Kerosene (Chapter 6)

3. Natzweiler-Struthof, a medical experimentation camp (Chapter 7)

4. Castle of Butchers (Chapter 8)

Short Answer

1. Nacht und Nebel translates to “Night and Fog.” A Nacht und Nebel prisoner is in a precarious, dangerous position; it implies that, one day, Julie will simply disappear without a trace into the darkness and fog of war. (Chapter 6)

Part 1, Chapters 9-11

Reading Check

1. Sheet music from a Jewish flautist (Chapter 9)

2. A list of all the secret missions she performed after that day in September 1942 (Chapter 10)

3. That she is not just a translator but an interrogator for the secret service (Chapter 10)

4. The pilot cannot fly because he was in a car accident. (Chapter 11)

Short Answer

1. The first is in September 1942, when Maddie takes Julie to her first secret assignment. The second is in April 1943, when Maddie ferries Julie to another secret mission. (Chapter 10)

Part 1, Chapters 12-15

Reading Check

1. The tail (Chapter 12)

2. Phenol (Chapter 13)

3. Lady Julia Lindsay MacKenzie Wallace Beaufort-Stuart (Chapter 14)

4. Nikolaus Ferber, von Linden’s boss (Chapter 15)

Short Answer

1. Julie gets von Lindon to reveal his daughter’s name, without having to resort to torture. (Chapter 12)

2. Julie must “prove” to von Linden that she is Eva Seiler, by tricking him. She must listen to von Linden’s interrogation of the French girl held prisoner near Julie’s cell. Julie and the French girl are escorted to the guillotine, thinking they are both going to be executed. (Chapter 12-15)

Part 2, Pages 207-264

Reading Check

1. Margaret Brodatt (Part 2, Pages 207-265)

2. 500 pounds of explosive and detonating wire (Part 2, Pages 207-265)

3. Damask (Part 2, Pages 207-265)

4. Photos of the plane wreckage that do not include the dead body (Part 2, Pages 207-265)

Short Answer

1. It indicates that there is a change in narrator— Julie is no longer writing her entries to von Linden, and Maddie is taking over the narrative. With no chapter numbers or divisions to provide structure, it also shows that the story is “unravelling” somewhat into a confessional revelation. (Part 2, Pages 207-264)

Part 2, Pages 265-300

Reading Check

1. Amélie (Part 2, Pages 265-300)

2. Julie (Part 2, Pages 265-300)

3. A tube of lipstick (Part 2, Pages 265-300)

4. “Kiss me, Hardy! Kiss me, quick!” (Part 2, Pages 265-300)

Short Answer

1. Maddie foreshadows Julie’s death when she insists that she won’t believe Julie is dead unless she sees Julie fall with her own eyes. When Julie dies, Maddie is the one to kill her, shooting her fatally in the head—therefore, Maddie did witness Julie’s death “with her own eyes.” (Part 2, Pages 265-300)

Part 2, Pages 301-332

Reading Check

1. The location in the town hall’s records for the building plans of the Ormaie Gestapo HQ (Part 2, Pages 301-332)

2. The Ormaie Gestapo HQ was demolished (Part 2, Pages 301-332)

3. The lady with the rose garden, who turns out to be Julie’s great-aunt (Part 2, Pages 301-332)

Short Answer

1. The mission is a complete success, technically speaking. The Ormaie Gestapo HQ is destroyed, and the Germans believe that it was due to air-raid bombs (and not the Resistance), so there will be no reprisals for Ormaie’s citizens. Captain von Linden kills himself. However, Julie dies in carrying out Operation Verity, so it is a failure in that sense. (Part 2, Pages 301-332)