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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 say he has been walking?

2. What airport does Leiter drop Bond at?

3. What is the only weapon strong enough to blow down the vault door?

4. Where will the Soviet submarine arrive?

5. What is the name of Leiter's detective agency?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does Bond stop Tilly?

2. What does Bond say to Goldfinger?

3. How does Goldfinger get clearance to fly over Fort Knox?

4. Describe the table Goldfinger straps Bond to.

5. How does Masterton die?

6. How does Goldfinger convince everyone he can rob Fort Knox?

7. Why does Bond think Tilly is not a proper spy?

8. How does Bond plant a homing device in Goldfinger's car?

9. How is Goldfinger planning to kill the 60,000 people of Fort Knox?

10. How does Goldfinger convince the doctor Bond is ill?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Identify the main themes of the story. In what way are these themes relevant to the time period? How does Fleming use character and setting to express these themes?

Essay Topic 2

Look at the structure of the novel.

1) How does Fleming use character and dialogue to drive the narrative?

2) Discuss elements of the narrative structure: exposition, conflict, complication, climax, resolution and conclusion. Do all the elements make for a logical and linear story? How does the story's structure express the novel's themes?

3) Aside from the main character, examine the way Fleming uses the other characters in the story. When does he introduce and take them away from the story? What effect does it have on the story?

Essay Topic 3

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?

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