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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 the gambling table shaped like?

2. What does the dossier say is Le Chiffre's weakness?

3. Which other player does Bond observe at the table?

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

5. What type of car does Bond have?

Short Essay Questions

1. Describe Bond's new partner.

2. Describe Le Chiffre.

3. What is the background of the city of Royale?

4. What does the reader know about Bond's case in the opening chapter?

5. How does Mathis greet Bond?

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

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

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

9. What cliffhangar does Fleming leave the reader with at the end of Chapter 8?

10. Why are the three individuals in Chapter 3 suspicious?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

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 2

The Bond books greatly influenced modern literature and in particular crime books. Choose a book written after the novel that you think was influenced by it and discuss their similarities in terms of:

a) plot

b) character

c) themes

Essay Topic 3

Write an essay revolving around the following idea: Fleming uses Bond 's character to express his true ideas about society.

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