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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 M rename Bond?

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

3. What is a ronin?

4. What country does Bond have to go to?

5. Who is Bond playing a game with?

Short Essay Questions

1. What is the large red wheel for?

2. What is ON?

3. Why does Tiger consider one foreigner dangerous?

4. Describe Bond and Tanako's game of rock scissors paper.

5. Why is Tiger pleased with Bond?

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

7. What does Bond say Dikko did the night before?

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

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

10. How do the Japanese secure their Secret Service building?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Examine the theme of death.

1) In what way does Fleming use the Japanese setting to express the theme of death?

2) How does the theme of death affect the tone of the novel? Is it different in thone to other Bond novels?

Essay Topic 2

Discuss Fleming's life. In what way do you think his life and personality is reflected in the book? Where did he learn about the world of espionage? In what ways is he like or unlike Bond?

Essay Topic 3

Examine Bond's character across the whole series.

1) How does Fleming develop Bond's character across the whole series?

2) Does Thundergall add any new elements to Bond's character? If so, what?

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