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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is Bond's initial reaction when Drax says that firing Moonraker will be like committing murder?

2. What method does Drax use to tell his workers apart?

3. What do the engineers introduced to Bond do when Drax walks away?

4. How did Hugo Drax become a multimillionaire?

5. How does Bond respond when Drax convinces him to continue the card game?

Short Essay Questions

1. How is the Service involved in the project at Drax's Moonraker facility?

2. When Bond meets Gala Brand at the Moonraker facility, what is her reaction to him?

3. Why is it suspicious that Drax hired fifty German engineers to work on Moonraker?

4. What is Bond's opinion of Gala Brand when he meets her at the Moonraker facility?

5. What are the consequences if Drax is caught cheating at cards?

6. Why does the author focus more on character than on plot in Chapters 6 and 7?

7. What is Bond's attitude about his new assignment and Drax?

8. Describe the two extremes of James Bond's life.

9. Explain James Bond's plan to expose Drax's cheating when they play bridge at Blades after dinner.

10. Why did Major Tallon, the murdered security officer, call his boss the day before he was murdered?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

A stereotype is a broad generalization about a certain group of people or a type of person, that the members of this group have no individual qualities. Would you consider Drax a stereotypical villain in Moonraker? Why or why not? If so, does his characterization as a stereotypical villain add or detract from the plot of the story? How? If not, would Drax as a stereotypical villain have aided your understanding of the story? How?

Essay Topic 2

Name a character, other than the main characters, who is important to the story. Why is the character important? Could the story have been written without this character? Why or why not?

Essay Topic 3

How does the setting influence the events in the story? Give examples to explain your answer.

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