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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 think the young man should have tried to do?

2. Which haiki poet wrote haikus with 17 syllables?

3. What does M want to do with Bond?

4. What does Bond say Tiger philosophized about the previous night?

5. Where does M meet his friend for a chat?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why does Tiger consider one foreigner dangerous?

2. What does Moloney suggest M does to help Bond get back to his old self?

3. What is the large red wheel for?

4. How does Bill Tanner help Bond?

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

6. What advice does Dikko give Bond about Tiger Tananko?

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

8. What is Bond's new mission?

9. What does Tiger think about Western culture?

10. What accident does Bond witness at the school?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Examine the theme of revenge.

1) In what way is the theme of revenge a general theme in Bond books? Why is it so important to the series and Bond's character as a whole?

2) How does Fleming express the theme of revenge in You Only Live Twice.

Essay Topic 2

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 3

Examine Bond villains.

1) What is a typical Bond villain?

2) Why are Bond villain's usually foreign?

3) How have Bond villain's changed over the years?

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