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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. Who does Bond ask to get his luggage ready for Jacksonville?
2. Where does Bond train?
3. Where does Leiter go to in the morning?
4. Who are guarding the Secatur?
5. Who does the taxi driver phone?
Short Essay Questions
1. What reason does Solitaire give for Mr. Big choosing St. Petersburg?
2. Who is Quarrel?
3. What happens to the fisherman who tries to get on the island where Mr Big's men are working?
4. What does Leiter say happened to Bond's train cabin in Jacksonville?
5. What reason does Solitaire give for Mr. Big's power over the African-American community?
6. Describe Bond's fight with the octopus.
7. What is Mr. Big's excuse for being on the island?
8. How does Bond think Mr. Big has protected his island?
9. Describe Leiter's condition in Chapter 14.
10. Why can Bond not make love to Solitaire in Chapter 11?
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
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?
Essay Topic 3
Identify the main themes of the story. Why do you think these themes are so important to the story? How does Fleming use character and setting to express these themes?
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