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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. What are Bond and Solitaire looking forward to doing on holiday at the end of the book?
(a) Adopting a child
(b) Swimming in the ocean
(c) Sleeping
(d) Making love

2. What did Mr. Big's men use to halt the train?
(a) Dynamite
(b) School children
(c) A buffalo herd
(d) An elephant

3. What did the men claim to be there to catch?
(a) Chlorea
(b) Rare fish
(c) Tigers
(d) Rare birds

4. Why is the man spraying blood into the water?
(a) To feed the fish
(b) To dye the sea a different color
(c) To enrage the fish
(d) To get rid of evidece

5. What does Mr. Big say he is the first of?
(a) The great black criminals
(b) The great fat criminals
(c) The great black American prince's
(d) The great black spies

Short Answer Questions

1. Who are guarding the Secatur?

2. Who does Bond meet at the hotel?

3. What had cut Solitaire's body?

4. At what station will the train stop at at 5 A.M.?

5. What does Bond do to Solitaire in this chapter?

Short Essay Questions

1. What is Bond's only chance of survival?

2. What does Bond learn about barracudas in Chapter 16?

3. What equipment does Bond have to take underwater with him?

4. What background information does Strangways give Bond in Chapter 16?

5. What has happened to Mr. Big and his Mafia group?

6. What is Mr. Big's excuse for being on the island?

7. What does Bond learn about the Robber from the local fish expert in Chapter 15?

8. What reason does Solitaire give for Mr. Big choosing St. Petersburg?

9. What does Leiter say happened to Bond's train cabin in Jacksonville?

10. Describe Leiter's condition in Chapter 14.

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