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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. Where does Bond hide the money?

2. What does the design of the hotel force the customer to do no matter where he intends to go?

3. Who does Bond have to call to complain about not getting his money?

4. What does Bond think will wake up Seraffimo and his men?

5. What does Tiffany send Bond from the kitchen?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does Leither help Bond and Tiffany?

2. How does Shady Tree say Bond can get his money?

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

4. What problems does Bond cause himself by playing roulette?

5. How do the gangsters catch Bond?

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

7. How does Tiffany impress Bond?

8. What do Bond and Tiffany say to each other on their dinner date?

9. What do the two men look like?

10. What do Earnest Cureo and Bond decide to do?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

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 2

Examine Fleming's representations of the following areas and decide how close Fleming's representations are to the real thing and how Fleming makes his representations seem and feel real:

1) The diamond trade

2) American mobs

3) Horse racing

Essay Topic 3

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?

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