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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 does Bond meet at the Bank of England?

2. What is the name of the golf club Bond is driving to?

3. What kind of compartment does Goldfinger tell Bond to book?

4. What did Goldfinger list his cargo as?

5. What is the make of Bond's gun?

Short Essay Questions

1. How did Bond kill the Mexican drug courier?

2. How did Bond break up the heroin smuggling ring?

3. How does Bond know Julius Du Pont?

4. How does Bond try and find information on Goldfinger?

5. What does M want Bond to do?

6. Describe Bond's first meeting with Goldfinger.

7. What is special about Oddjob's hat?

8. What does Oddjob demonstrate to Bond?

9. Why does M think Goldfinger works for SMERSH?

10. How does Bond react to seeing Goldfinger?

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 are character 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

Goldfinger is part of the spy fiction genre.

1) What are the conventions of the genre in terms of character, language and plot?

2) In what way did the Bond series help to set the template for similar novels? Do modern novels still use the ideas used in Goldfinger?

Essay Topic 3

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?

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