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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 were in both camera cases?

2. Which character is gone when Bond looks around the room?

3. Who is the main antagonist of the novel?

4. What is Vesper excited to work with?

5. Who did the Bulgarian say the operation was meant to kill?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does Mathis deal with the blast?

2. What does the telegraph say that Bond will receive in this opening chapter?

3. How is Le Chiffre attempting to make up his losses?

4. Descbribe Bond's time at the gambling table in Chapter 7.

5. What does Mathis tell Bond in Chapter 3?

6. How does Mathis greet Bond?

7. What does Bond do when he arrives back in his hotel room in Chapter 1?

8. Why is Le Chiffre close to a financial crisis?

9. Why could Le Chiffre's financial crisis lead to his death?

10. What do Leiter and Bond discuss at the bar?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Examine Bond's character across the whole series.

1) How does Fleming develop Bond's character across the whole series?

2) Does Casino Royale add any new elements to Bond's character? If so, what?

Essay Topic 2

Casino Royale 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 Casino Royale?

Essay Topic 3

Examine America's relationship with Russia.

1) Do you think it is right to label Russian spies and people linked to Russia as evil?

2) In what ways have such books created a negative stereotypes around enemies of the west and how has this affected our interaction with them?

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