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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. Who watches Bond win money on roulette?

2. Where does Bond have to make the payoff to the jockey?

3. Why does Leiter take Bond to California?

4. Who was Tiffany's lover?

5. What second game does Bond play in the casino?

Short Essay Questions

1. What is Bond worried about doing at the end of the chapter?

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

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

4. How does Leither help Bond and Tiffany?

5. Why is Bond suspicious of the two men?

6. How does the attendant prepare bond's mud bath?

7. How does Leiter help Bond out at the end of the chapter?

8. Why is Shy Smile disqualified?

9. How does Bond win his money?

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

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 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

Why has Seraffimo has not played a major part in the book, but is still considered to be the main villain? Does his death lack any real impact because he has not played a major part in the story?

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