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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 does Bond try to attack the octopus with initially?

2. Who is on the stretcher?

3. What does Bond clean while he waits for nightfall?

4. Where are Bond and Solitaire in this final chapter?

5. For what country has Mr. Big left?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. How does Bond think Mr. Big has protected his island?

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

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

5. What does Bond learn from his research in Chapter 16?

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

7. Who is Quarrel?

8. What trouble does Bond encounter at the end of Chapter 11?

9. What happens to the barracudas in Chapter 20?

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

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 characters 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

Write a 500-word essay revolving around the following statement: Fleming's representation of African-Americans is too general too have any positive impact on the story.

Essay Topic 3

Live and Let Die is known as spy fiction.

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 Live and Let Die?

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