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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 does Bond notice when he looks around the room?

2. What does Bond think Le Chiffre wants to rob?

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

4. Which of the following people is also sitting around the casino table?

5. What kind of gun does Bond decide to take with him in this chapter?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. Describe the layout of the casino table.

3. What does Bond think about Le Chiffre in this opening chapter?

4. Describe what happens when Bond and Vesper first enter the casino in Chapter 10.

5. How does Bond feel about going broke?

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

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

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

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

10. What does Bond worry about at the end of Chapter 4?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Identify the main themes of the story. Why do you think these themes are so important to the story? How does Fleming use character and setting to express these themes?

Essay Topic 2

Casino Royale is written in the third person. Why do you think Fleming chose to write the story in the third person? How do you think the meaning of the story would have changed if it were written in the first person?

Essay Topic 3

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?

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