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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. How does Drax react when he deals an excellent hand to Bond?
(a) Drax accuses Bond of cheating.
(b) Drax emits a sinister laugh.
(c) Drax wants to end the game.
(d) Drax does not bid.

2. What does the large blast wall protect?
(a) Moonraker.
(b) Drax's collection of antique cars.
(c) A neighboring industrial site.
(d) The house and the barracks.

3. What is Bond's condition when he arrives at his office the morning after his card game with Drax?
(a) He feels terrible.
(b) He is anxious.
(c) He has a clear head.
(d) He is depressed.

4. How did Hugo Drax become a multimillionaire?
(a) Raiding corporations.
(b) Investing in commodities.
(c) Developing medical technology.
(d) Developing space technology.

5. How does Drax behave when he begins to win after losing the first round?
(a) Courteously.
(b) Carelessly.
(c) Impulsively.
(d) Obnoxiously.

Short Answer Questions

1. Aside from Drax, who else explains the Moonraker facility to Bond as they dine together?

2. Where does Bond first go once inside the Moonraker compound?

3. During what part of the card game does Bond see Drax cheating?

4. What does Drax hiring many Germans to work on Moonraker suggest?

5. Why does James Bond immediately agree to play bridge with Drax when he challenges Bond and M to a game after dinner?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why does Drax's identity and life arouse suspicion?

2. What do we learn about M, Bond's boss, when they meet to discuss Hugo Drax?

3. What do we learn about Drax as he plays cards with James Bond?

4. What does Bond wonder about the German engineers he is introduced to who then follow Drax away?

5. Why did Major Tallon, the murdered security officer, call his boss the day before he was murdered?

6. How is it possible that Drax is not who he claims to be?

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

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

9. Why does M want Bond to beat Drax at cards, even if Bond has to cheat?

10. Explain James Bond's plan to expose Drax's cheating when they play bridge at Blades after dinner.

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