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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 is the man working as a dentist?

2. Where does the road sign say to stop at?

3. What is the man waiting for?

4. What does Bond say he got out of his meeting with Saye?

5. What does M smoke?

Short Essay Questions

1. Describe Bond's journey from the plane to the House of Diamond's New York offices.

2. What happens when Bond tries to push Tiffany for more information?

3. How does Bond meet Felix Leiter?

4. Describe Tiffany's phone call.

5. Why is Leiter going to Saratoga Springs?

6. How does Bond prepare to meet Tiffany at the hotel?

7. What does Sayer think of Bond and Vallance's agent?

8. What is Bond's new assignment?

9. What does Vallance want Bond to do?

10. Why can't the Scotland Yard prove that the House of Diamonds is a front for diamond smuggling?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

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

Essay Topic 2

Examine violence in the novel.

1) How do the characters in the novel view violence? Are there any characters 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

Fleming writes Diamonds Are Forever in the third person. Why do you think Fleming chose to write the story in the third person? How do you think the meaning of the story would have changed if Fleming wrote it in the first person?

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