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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. Which of the following places does not hold billions in cash or bullion?

2. What can Goldfinger give Bond to kill him painlessly?

3. Where does Bond hide his knife?

4. How does Helmut Springer die?

5. Where will the Soviet submarine arrive?

Short Essay Questions

1. Describe the table Goldfinger straps Bond to.

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

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

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

5. How does Helmut Springer die?

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

7. What does Goldfinger put under the bridge?

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

9. What choices does Goldfinger offer Bond?

10. How does Goldfinger recapture Bond in this chapter?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

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 2

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 3

The Bond books greatly influenced modern literature and, in particular, crime books. Choose a book written after the novel that you think was influenced by it and discuss their similarities in terms of:

a) plot

b) character

c) themes

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