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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 the large blast wall protect?
2. What does James Bond decide to invest the rest of his money in after buying personal items with his card game winnings?
3. What is the purpose of the meeting between M and James Bond?
4. What is the purpose of Bond's meeting with Professor Train, a physicist working on Moonraker?
5. What does Drax tell James Bond when Bond and M sit down to play cards with Drax?
Short Essay Questions
1. Describe the two extremes of James Bond's life.
2. Explain how Hugo Drax acquired his identity during World War II.
3. What is the attitude of London's high society about cheating at cards?
4. What type of atmosphere seems to pervade the Moonraker facility as Bond watches the men change shifts?
5. Explain James Bond's plan to expose Drax's cheating when they play bridge at Blades after dinner.
6. Why does Bond not worry about saving money?
7. What does Bond learn from the bartender about the murder at the bar involving the two men who worked at Drax's Moonraker facility?
8. Why does the author focus more on character than on plot in Chapters 6 and 7?
9. Why did Major Tallon, the murdered security officer, call his boss the day before he was murdered?
10. What do we learn about M, Bond's boss, when they meet to discuss Hugo Drax?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
How does the setting influence the events in the story? Give examples to explain your answer.
Essay Topic 2
Internal conflict affects James Bond at several points in the story. Explain what the conflict is, how Bond attempts to resolve the internal conflict, if the conflict is resolved and how it is resolved, if the conflict is not resolved why it is not resolved, and what you learned about Bond from the internal conflict. How does the resolution or lack of resolution of the internal conflict affect James Bond?
Essay Topic 3
In Moonraker, several situations require duty and sacrifice by one or more characters. Choose a character that is affected by duty and sacrifice, and explain how it affects that character and the plot of the story.
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