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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 Patricia's role at Shrublands?

2. Why does M think the plane landed in the Bahamas?

3. Who is Polly too expensive for?

4. What is the name of Bond's housekeeper?

5. What kind of car does Domino drive?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does Bond describe Count Lippe?

2. Why does Bond like Domino?

3. How does the motorcyclist kill Lippe?

4. What does Bond think about his osteopathic treatment?

5. What does M think happened to the plane carrying the nuclear weapons?

6. What is SPECTRE?

7. What is Blofeld's background?

8. Why does Blofeld use a violet-scented breath freshener?

9. What happens to Bond on the traction table in Chapter 3?

10. How does Miss Moneypenny explain M's behavior?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Look at the structure of the novel.

1) How does Fleming use character and dialogue to drive the narrative.

2) Discuss elements of the narrative structure: exposition, conflict, complication, climax, resolution and conclusion. Do all the elements make for a logical and linear story? How does the story's structure express the novel's themes?

3) Aside, from the main character examine the way Fleming uses the other characters in the story. When does he introduce and take them away from the story? What effect does it have on the story?

Essay Topic 2

How important it is for a secret agent to have a healthy lifestyle? What kind of lifestyle would someone like Bond have to have in today's society? Were concerns about health and lifestyle, new concerns in the Sixties?

Essay Topic 3

Thunderball is written in the third person. Why do you think Fleming chose to write the story in the third person? How do you think the meaning of the story would of changed if it were written in the first person?

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