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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 kind of drink is Pis-de Chat?

2. What does Bond hide in his toilet?

3. What are the people celebrating at the skating rink?

4. What is Agent 501 an expert in?

5. What do Draco's men tell Blofeld's men they are investigating?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Bond hear during the night in Ruby's room?

2. Describe Bond's Christmas dinner with M.

3. What does Bond find out about Ruby in Chapter 13?

4. What does Mr. Franklin suspect Blofeld's plan is?

5. Describe the meeting between Blofeld and Bond in Chapter 19.

6. How does Bond get ready to escape?

7. How does Bond try to hide himself in Samaden?

8. Describe the chase between Blofeld and Bond.

9. What does Bond say in his message to headquarters?

10. How do Bond's pursuers try to kill him?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Discuss the values of 1960s Britain.

1) Why was morality such an issue during this time?

2) In what ways are the characters' negative characteristics a product of their time? In what way Britain was going through a transitional phase in the Sixties?

3) Does modern society share any values with 1960s Britain?

Essay Topic 2

On Her Majesty's Secret Service is part of the spy fiction genre.

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 On Her Majesty's Secret Service?

Essay Topic 3

Examine the novel's chronological setting.

1) What were the main concerns during the 1960s? How does Fleming express these concerns?

2) In what ways do you think the novel's meaning would change if it were set in today's society?

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