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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. Where does Mary follow Willy to at the beginning of chapter 19?

2. What language can Willy speak?

3. What part of Britain is Willy from?

4. Where else did the police find Biranne's finger prints?

5. Where does Pierce want to swim to?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Ducane say he noticed in the pictures he took at the scene of Radeechy's death?

2. What do Kate and Octavia talk about later that night?

3. What is Kate thinking about as she walks along the beach?

4. How does Willy react when Mary asks him to marry her?

5. Why does John Ducane want to break up with Jessica?

6. What does Mary tell Ducane is making her unhappy?

7. How does Willy react to Barbara's advances?

8. What does Willy think about Mary?

9. Describe the meeting between Kate and Fiver.

10. What evidence does Ducane have against Biranne?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Choose one of the following and discuss how it affects the tone of the novel and helps to express character and theme:

1. Setting

2. Point of view

3. Structure

4. Language

Essay Topic 2

Discuss the author's life. In what way is his life and personality is reflected in the book? Where could he have learned about the world of espionage? In what ways is he like or unlike Bond?

Essay Topic 3

Choose one of the following and examine what expresses about 1960s society:

1) The estate.

2) Ducane's womanizing .

3) The occult.

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