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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 do Bond and Gala Brand plan to do together the day she travels to London with Drax?
2. What does Bond take from the person he finds searching his room?
3. When Gala Brand and Bond are lying on the beach letting their clothes dry, what alerts Bond to the possibility of danger?
4. What does Vallance say when Bond tells him that Gala Brand didn't come to their meeting?
5. What happens to Drax's submarine when Moonraker comes down?
Short Essay Questions
1. Why does Gala Brand think that Drax does not trust her?
2. What does Bond tell Drax his true motivation is for wanting to destroy London?
3. When Bond and Brand return to Drax's house after the rockslide on the beach, why is it significant that they see only three places set at the table for dinner?
4. Why is Brand trying to steal Drax's notebook from his coat pocket while they travel to London?
5. What does the map Bond finds in his bedroom in Drax's house and Tallon's observation made prior to his murder have in common?
6. How are the people of England misled by Drax's speech on the radio, just before the launch of Moonraker?
7. What could be Drax's reasons for sending Bond and Brand away together from the Moonraker site?
8. When Drax questions Bond and Brand as Krebs threatens them with a blowtorch, why does Bond decide to tell Drax the truth?
9. Why does Drax build Moonraker?
10. When Krebs regains consciousness after Bond finds him and knocks him out while he is searching Bond's room, what does he say when Bond questions him?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Explain why Moonraker falls under the genre of spy novel. Give examples from the story. If you believe it is more appropriate for a different genre, please state which genre, explain, and support your answer with evidence from the novel.
Essay Topic 2
Explain the theme of ambition as it applies to James Bond and Drax. Compare and contrast Bond and Drax's ideas of ambition and how ambition affects each of them.
Essay Topic 3
James Bond is both a participant and an observer in the story. Give an example of a situation where he is a participant, and an example of a situation where he is an observer. Is Bond more frequently a participant or an observer in the story? What makes you think this? Which situation affected him more--being a participant or an observer? How?
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