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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. Where did Tiger study?

2. What does Bond ask Tiger about?

3. What is ON?

4. Who is Bond taken to meet?

5. What does Bond begin to wonder in this chapter?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why does Tanako call Bond Bondo-san?

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

3. What advice does Tiger give Bond at the train station?

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

5. What is Bond's new mission?

6. What famous folktale does Tiger tell Bond?

7. What does the dangerous foreigner do in Japan?

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

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

10. What does Tiger think about Western culture?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Examine the novel's chronological setting.

1) What were the main concerns during the 1960s. How does Fleming express these concerns?

2) In what ways do you think the novels meaning would change if it was set in today's society?

Essay Topic 2

Examine one of the following aspects of Japanese culture:

1) Attitudes to foreigners

2) Suicide

3) Respect of elders and superiors.

Essay Topic 3

The Bond books greatly influenced modern literature and in particular crime books. Choose a book written after the novel that you think was influenced by it and discuss there similarities in terms of:

a) plot

b) character

c) themes.

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