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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. To whom does the person searching Bond's room say he or she will answer?

2. Where do they put Bond and Gala Brand when Drax reaches the Moonraker facility?

3. Where did Drax complete his education?

4. What happens to the HMS Merganzer, a ship that was watching the Moonraker launch?

5. Aside from Drax and Krebs, who is dining at Drax's house when Bond and Gala Brand walk in?

Short Essay Questions

1. How is Drax mistaken for a British soldier during World War 2?

2. When Brand sees that she is very close to Buckingham Palace while in the room full of strange machines, what does she realize about Drax?

3. When Drax questions Bond and Brand as Krebs threatens them with a blowtorch, why does Bond decide to tell Drax the truth?

4. What does Bond find strange about the information he reads in the files of the employees at the Moonraker facility?

5. How has Krebs, Drax's assistant, become a suspicious character in the story?

6. What could be Drax's reasons for sending Bond and Brand away together from the Moonraker site?

7. What do Bond and Drax plan to do about Krebs' access to Moonraker?

8. What does Brand realize about Moonraker's target?

9. When Krebs regains consciousness after Bond finds him and knocks him out while he is searching Bond's room, what does he say when Bond questions him?

10. Why does Gala Brand think that Drax does not trust her?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

List the main events from Moonraker. Could you change the order of the main events or leave out any main events? Why or why not? What does this say about the author's organization of the material? Why might he have organized it the way he did?

Essay Topic 2

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 3

Several components of quality literature include:

1) Use of descriptive words;

2) Use of analogies, metaphors, and similes;

3) An attention-grabbing beginning;

4) Details;

5) Appealing to the five senses.

Is Moonraker an example of quality literature? Why or why not? Give examples from the story using three of the five components of quality literature to explain your answer.

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