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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 name of the hotel that Bond checks into?

2. What alcoholic drink does Bond order at the end of the chapter?

3. Who initially wins the race?

4. What does Bond question Tiffany about?

5. Who does Leiter meet with?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does Tiffany impress Bond?

2. Describe the battle between Bond and his pursuers.

3. How does Bond win his money?

4. How does Bond try to delay Seraffimo and his men?

5. In what way is Bond situation more precarious than he first thought?

6. How does Bond defeat Seraffimo?

7. What do the two men look like?

8. Why is Shy Smile disqualified?

9. Why is Bond suspicious of the two men?

10. How does Leiter think the jockey wants to throw the race?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Choose one of the following and examine how it affects the tone of the novel and helps to express character and theme:

1) Setting

2) Point of view

3) Structure

4) Language

Essay Topic 2

Examine Fleming's writing style. How would you describe Fleming's prose style? What kind of vocabulary does he use? Does he use any specific writing techniques? What meaning does Fleming's style give to the story?

Essay Topic 3

Fleming writes Diamonds Are Forever 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 Fleming wrote it in the first person?

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