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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 position does Bill Tanner hold?

2. What does Dikko slam on the table?

3. Who does Dikko give Bond advice on?

4. What is the Black Dragon Society?

5. Who is Bond playing a game with?

Short Essay Questions

1. Describe Bond and Tanako's game of rock scissors paper.

2. What famous folktale does Tiger tell Bond?

3. What poisons are there in the park?

4. What does Bond say Dikko did the night before?

5. Why is M concerned about Bond?

6. What advice does Tiger give Bond at the train station?

7. Why does the government not prosecute Dr. Shatterhand?

8. What is Molony's reasoning behind sending Bond on a dangerous mission?

9. Why is Tiger pleased with Bond?

10. What is ON?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Examine the theme of death.

1) In what way does Fleming use the Japanese setting to express the theme of death?

2) How does the theme of death affect the tone of the novel? Is it different in thone to other Bond novels?

Essay Topic 2

Examine Fleming's representation of Japanese culture.

1) How accurate do the students think Fleming's representation of Japanese culture is?

2) In what way does Fleming exaggerate parts of Japanese culture to make the novel excting and express some of the deeper themes?

Essay Topic 3

You Only Live Twice is known as spy fiction.

1) What are the conventions of the genre in terms of character, language and plot?

2) In what way did the Bond series help to set the template for similar novels? Do modern novels still use the ideas used in You Only Live Twice?

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