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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 ON?

2. What does the dangerous foreigner own?

3. What is the building called that Bond and Dikko enter?

4. What is hara-kiri?

5. What is the Asahi?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Tiger say is his real feelings towards foreigners?

2. What is Bond's feeling at the beginning of the chapter?

3. What famous folktale does Tiger tell Bond?

4. What does Tiger think about Western culture?

5. What is the garden of death?

6. What is Molony's reasoning behind sending Bond on a dangerous mission?

7. Why does the government not prosecute Dr. Shatterhand?

8. Why did Dr. Shatterhand come to Japan?

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

10. What does the sheet of paper say that Tiger hands Bond?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Examine the novel's dialogue. How does Fleming's dialogue contribute to the following areas:

1) Character

2) Setting

3) Plot

Essay Topic 2

Examine violence in the novel.

1) How do the characters in the novel view violence? Are there are character that would think twice before shooting or hitting someone?

2) Do the characters need to be violent to cope in the world that Fleming portrays?

3) How do the students think the public reacted to the novel's violence when it was first published? How would the public react to such a book today?

Essay Topic 3

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?

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