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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 is the name of the captured agent?
2. What does M enjoy painting?
3. Whose helicopter does Bond see leaving the mountain?
4. What does Blofeld leave on the track for Bond?
5. What does Bond pull out of the plum pudding?
Short Essay Questions
1. What does Bond hear during the night in Ruby's room?
2. How does Bond kill his pursuer?
3. Describe Bond's Christmas dinner with M.
4. What does Bond find out about Ruby in Chapter 13?
5. How do Bond's pursuers try to kill him?
6. Why does Bond refuse to identify Shaun Campbell?
7. How does Bond try to hide himself in Samaden?
8. How does Bond get ready to escape?
9. Describe the meeting between Blofeld and Bond in Chapter 19.
10. What does Bond arrange at Zurich Airport in Chapter 19?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Examine violence in the novel.
1) How do the characters in the novel view violence? Are there any character that would think twice before shooting or hitting someone?
2) Do the characters need to be violent to cope in the world that Fleming portrays?
3) How do the students think the public reacted to the novel's violence when it was first published? How would the public react to such a book today?
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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