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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 girl who serves Bond a drink at 3 1/2 Love Lane planning to do when the property is sold?

2. What does M usually eat for lunch?

3. Where did Scaramanga begin working as a full-time gunman for a United States mob family?

4. How long is Captain Walker supposed to keep James Bond on the line so that the call can be traced?

5. What is the name of the neurologist M sent Bond to?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why did the Hard Man lose his job as a police superintendent before coming to work for the Ministry of Defense?

2. What event did the beginning of Scaramanga's career coincide with?

3. Why does Bond select the hotel he checks into when he first arrives in London?

4. Why is the paper Bond purchases from the shop at the Kingston airport one of his favorites?

5. Although the description of Scaramanga in Records is exact, what does the description fail to catch?

6. As Bond follows Scaramanga to the Thunderbird Hotel, how does Bond feel as they arrive at the darkened hotel, and why?

7. After Bond finds and reads the message he sees at the display stand in the Kingston airport, what does Bond do next?

8. Why does the wine committee at M's lunchtime restaurant stock wine that is not allowed to be on the restaurant's wine list?

9. What is the Silver Greyhound that Bond is carrying as he waits for his connecting flight in the Kingston airport?

10. What is the "War Book"?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

The entire story takes place primarily in two different locations. Compare and contrast the following locations in the story - in London and in Savannah La Mar. Be sure to include how the characters are treated in each of these locations, as well as how they live and interact with each other. Of these two locations in the story, which location would you most prefer to live in, and why?

Essay Topic 2

Compare and contrast James Bond and Scaramanga.

a. How are the two characters similar? How are they different?

b. Compare the role that justice plays in each of their lives. How is each character affected by the concept of justice - both positively and negatively?

Essay Topic 3

The theme of loyalty is evident throughout the novel. Scaramanga's loyalties, for instance, lie only with himself, while Leiter is loyal both to the United States and to James Bond. Discuss how the theme of loyalty is portrayed through the eyes of Scaramanga, James Bond, Hendriks, Felix Leiter, and Mary Goodnight. Support your observations.

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