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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How does Bond find Colombo's laugh?
(a) Frightening.
(b) Infectious.
(c) Disconcerting.
(d) Irritating.

2. When does Colombo say he worked for the English?
(a) During Italian Resistance in World War II.
(b) Last year as an independent contractor.
(c) During the Italian Resistance in World War II.
(d) Just after college when he was coaching soccer.

3. Whom does Milton Krest sound like?
(a) Clark Gable.
(b) Gregory Peck.
(c) Humphrey Bogart.
(d) James Cagney.

4. According to Colombo why does Kristatos want him killed?
(a) Colombo is having an affair with Kristatos sister.
(b) Colombo knows too much.
(c) Colombo is a friend of the Americans.
(d) Colombo is an enemy of the Russian government.

5. According to Bond what is the "usual story of big syndicate crime"?
(a) Someone must be killed.
(b) Great danger is involved.
(c) One never sees more than the tip of the iceberg.
(d) One is always exploited.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is "the only man on the island who doesn't carry a machete"?

2. What is the price of the information Colombo gives Bond?

3. What is the old slave-driver's whip of the Indian Ocean.

4. How is Mrs. Krest's face on the journey away from Chagrin Island?

5. What is the best train from Rome to Venice?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why is Colombo so comfortable offering Lisl Baum to Bond as a reward?

2. What is the conspiracy that Colombo and Bond destroyed in "half an hour"?

3. How does Colombo convince Bond to join forces with him?

4. How is the Hildebrand Rarity finally caught?

5. What is "The Corrector"?

6. How is Bond finally captured?

7. Bond knows M has certain "bees in his bonnet." What are they?

8. Where and when does Baum agree to meet Bond?

9. What is Bond's first impression of Milton Krest?

10. How does Enrico Colombo discover what Kristatos and Bond are talking about?

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