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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 shape is Saye's face?

2. Where do the men hide the diamonds?

3. What does the man use as an alibi?

4. What race is the girl who opens the door to Saye's office?

5. What country does M say bought £5000000 worth of diamonds the previous year?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does the agent determine that Sayer is not a real diamond executive?

2. Why is the man so anxious?

3. Describe Tiffany's phone call.

4. How does Bond meet Felix Leiter?

5. How does Tiffany want Bond to smuggle the diamonds to New York?

6. Describe Bond and Leiter's trip to Saratoga Springs.

7. Why does the Chief of Staff send Bond to see Vallance?

8. What does the man complain to the pilot about?

9. What does Vallance want Bond to do?

10. Describe Bond's journey from the plane to the House of Diamond's New York offices.

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

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 2

Examine violence in the novel.

1) How do the characters in the novel view violence? Are there any characters that would think twice before shooting or hitting someone?

2) Do the characters need to be violent to cope in the world that Fleming portrays?

3) How do the students think the public reacted to the novel's violence when it was first published? How would the public react to such a book today?

Essay Topic 3

How does Fleming represent American mobsters? Is Fleming's representation of American mobsters is accurate? What part did American mobsters play in American society in the fifties? How have America tried to control the activities of American mobsters?

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