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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 witness at Tiger's training school?

2. Who was the castle once owned by?

3. What does Bond ask Tiger about?

4. What is Bond ready to give M?

5. Who must people in Japan respect?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does Tiger change Bond's appearance?

2. Describe the castle the doctor settles on.

3. Why is Dikko so angry in Melody's bar?

4. What poisons are there in the park?

5. How did the young man in Tokyo kill himself?

6. What does Tanako say is the difference between American and Japanese culture?

7. What does Tanako tell Bond during their business meeting?

8. What does Bond say he sees all around him?

9. What does Tiger think about Western culture?

10. What does the dangerous foreigner do in Japan?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

You Only Live Twice 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 You Only Live Twice?

Essay Topic 2

Look at the structure of the novel.

1) How do 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) Away 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 3

Examine Fleming's representation of Japanese culture.

1) How accurate do the students think Fleming's representation of Japanese culture is?

2) In what way does Fleming exaggerate parts of Japanese culture to make the novel excting and express some of the deeper themes?

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