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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 does Bond buy for Domino?

2. How does Petacchi kill the others on the plane?

3. Where does Petacchi fly the plane towards?

4. Who else does Miss Moneypenny say has been to Shrublands?

5. Who is the first person Bond meets at Shrublands?

Short Essay Questions

1. Describe Emilio Largo.

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

3. Why does Lippe offer Bond £50,000?

4. Why does Bond like Domino?

5. What is Giuseppe Petacchi's background?

6. What plan does Blofeld outline in this chapter?

7. What does Blofeld review at the SPECTRE meeting?

8. How does Bond describe Count Lippe?

9. What is Blofeld's background?

10. What three desires does Bond say he is still obsessed by?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

What is the difference between barracudas and sharks? When and how can sharks be dangerous? What position do sharks hold in popular culture?

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 known as spy fiction.

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 Thunderball?

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