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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 color hair does Goldfinger have?

2. What is Universal Export's specialty?

3. What does Goldfinger hit his ball into on the seventeenth hole?

4. What does Du Pont offer Bond $10,000 dollars to do?

5. What does Bond determine is 20 yards from the card table?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why does Bond want to stay an extra night in Miami?

2. How does Goldfinger cheat at golf?

3. How did Bond kill the Mexican drug courier?

4. What does Oddjob demonstrate to Bond?

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

6. How does Bond beat Goldfinger at golf?

7. How does Blacking know Bond?

8. What research does Bond have to do for his book?

9. What does M want Bond to do?

10. How did Goldfinger build up his wealth?

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

Why is gambling such a big part of Bond books? Do you think Bond would have still accepted the golf bet with Goldfinger if he were not assigned to track him? In what way does gambling add excitement to the golf game that may not have been there otherwise?

Essay Topic 3

Why would someone as rich as Goldfinger want to cheat someone out of money? Why is cheating such an important theme in the book? What is Fleming's opinion on cheating and how does he express it?

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