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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. To what is being inside the rocket compared?
(a) A giant gun barrel.
(b) A cannon.
(c) A telescope.
(d) A cardboard tube.

2. Where are M and Bond when M tells Bond that two men working at Drax's Moonraker facility are killed?
(a) The Moonraker facility.
(b) M's office.
(c) Blades.
(d) Bond's office.

3. What does Professor Train tell Bond makes Moonraker possible?
(a) Sea water.
(b) Columbite.
(c) Heat.
(d) German engineering.

4. What malady does Drax insist he suffers because of an injury in World War II?
(a) Epilepsy.
(b) Amnesia.
(c) Hepatitis.
(d) Dysplasia.

5. Why does James Bond immediately agree to play bridge with Drax when he challenges Bond and M to a game after dinner?
(a) The game will give Bond a chance to discover how Drax is cheating.
(b) Bond knows how Drax cheats.
(c) Bond wants to examine Drax's physical features more closely.
(d) Bond wants to try his own cheating methods.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the large blast wall protect?

2. What does Bond want to do when he is ready to end the card game with Drax?

3. What is the setting at the beginning of the story?

4. What other activity does Bond spend his money on besides playing golf and driving his Bentley?

5. What is James Bond doing at the opening of the story?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why does Bond not worry about saving money?

2. What are the consequences if Drax is caught cheating at cards?

3. What do we learn about James Bond based on his feelings about his shooting lesson results?

4. What is the reaction of Basildon, the chair of the club, when Bond confirms that Drax is cheating at cards?

5. What is the attitude of London's high society about cheating at cards?

6. When Bond arrives at the Moonraker facility and spends time with Drax, what happens to Bond's opinion of Drax?

7. Why is it suspicious that Drax hired fifty German engineers to work on Moonraker?

8. Explain how Bond beats Drax at cards after Bond signals M.

9. What does Bond learn about how the Moonraker rocket works from Professor Train, a physicist working on the rocket?

10. What does Drax mean when he says firing Moonraker would be like committing murder?

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