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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. Who does Bond think about as he smokes his last cigarette?

2. What does Bond use to slide down the wall?

3. What organization does the man work for?

4. Who leaps out of the car window?

5. What famous school did Bond attend?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why is the castle a taboo subject?

2. What does Blofeld order Bond to tell him?

3. What is the legend of the Six Guardians?

4. Describe Bond's education.

5. Why does Bond refuse the antidote?

6. Describe Bond's day with Kissy.

7. What catch 22 situation does Blofeld put Bond in?

8. What does Kissy tell Bond when he wakes up?

9. What is Tiger's plan to get into the castle?

10. Why does Bond pretend not to know the person in the photograph?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Examine one of the following aspects of Japanese culture:

1) Attitudes to foreigners

2) Suicide

3) Respect of elders and superiors.

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

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.

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